Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? (80 page)

383 DEAR LEAH: Dorothy Parker telegram to Leah Salisbury, February 13, 1962, Leah Salisbury Collection, Columbia University.

383 NINA FOCH RECALLED: Author’s interview with Nina Foch.

383 DOROTHY INSISTED :
New York Times
, May 6, 1962.

383 HE WAS, ACCORDING TO LEVY: Author’s interview with Ralph Levy.

384 NOT TOO LONG AGO:
New York Times,
May 6, 1962.

384 SERIOUS PROBLEMS: Dorothy Parker letter to Leah Salisbury, March 9, 1962, Leah Salisbury Collection.

384 SHE TOLD
THE NEW YORK TIMES: New York Times
, May 6, 1962.

384 IT WAS AWFUL: Dorothy Parker/ Alan Campbell letter to Leah Salisbury, September 19, 1962, Leah Salisbury Collection.

385 DOROTHY HATED: Ibid.

385 ALL ALONG SHE HAD INSISTED:
New York Times
, May 6, 1962.

386 PARKER LADD ARRANGED: Dorothy Parker and Frederick Shroyer,
Short Story: A Thematic Anthology
, Charles Scribner’s, 1965.

386 LADD REMEMBERED: Author’s interview with Parker Ladd.

386 ALAN, DAPPER IN SILK ASCOT: Author’s interview with Lois Battle.

387 DOROTHY, ONLY TOO EAGER: Lois Battle, “A Wink at a Cock-eyed World,”
UCLA Daily Bruin
, February 16, 1962.

387 DOROTHY LIKENED ALAN: Author’s interview with Dana Woodbury.

387 DOROTHY, RECALLED MIRANDA LEVY: Author’s interview with Miranda Levy.

388 THE DOGGIES: Author’s interview with Frederick Shroyer.

388 QUESTIONED BY A REPORTER:
Los
Angeles Times, June 18, 1962.

388 I SENT IT: Cooper, p. 112.

388 DEAR DOROTHY DIX: Arnold Gingrich letter to Dorothy Parker, February 4, 1963, Bentley Historical Library.

389 THEREFORE, HE WAS JOLTED: Arnold Gingrich to Arthur Kinney, May 10, 1963, Bentley Historical Library.

389 SHE HAD IMAGINED:
Los Angeles Times,
April 28, 1963.

390 I NEVER GIVE A BAD MARK: Author’s interview with Sally Foster.

390 AS PARKER LADD CAME TO REALIZE: Author’s interview with Parker Ladd.

390 TO SOME OF HIS NEIGHBORS: Author’s interview with Bob Tallman and Bob Magner.

390 ALAN EVEN HAD TO TAKE: Hellman,
An Unfinished Woman
, p. 193.

391 PUGH NOTICED THAT: Author’s interview with Noel Pugh.

391 DOROTHY WAS NOT ABOVE: Ibid.

392 WHEN CLARA LESTER ARRIVED: All-thor’s interview with Clara Lester.

392 HE FELT STRANGE: Cooper, p. 113.

393 THE CORONER’S REPORT: Certificate of Death No. 63-084891. State of California Dept. of Public Health.

393 I DON’T THINK: Author’s interview with Nina Foch.

393 SHE ASKED ME WHAT SHOULD BE DONE: Author’s interview with Roy Eichel.

393 GET ME A NEW HUSBAND: Hellman,
An Unfinished Woman
, p. 199.

394 IF SHE HAD ANY DECENCY: New
York Herald Tribune,
October 13, 1963.

394 PERHAPS THE PERSON: Author’s interview with Noel Pugh.

395 WE DON’T HAVE ANY LIQUOR: Author’s interview with Sally Foster.

395 FRED SHROYER: Author’s interview with Frederick Shroyer.

395 YOU SHOULDN’T: Author’s interview with Sally Foster.

395 WHEN SHE STEPPED: Author’s interview with Nina Foch.

396 YOU HAVE TO COME OVER HERE: Author’s interview with Sally Foster.

396 WOULDN’T YOU KNOW IT: Ibid.

396 SHE WANTED TO MAKE A CLEAN SWEEP:
New York Herald Tribune
, April 8, 1965.

397 SEVERAL TIMES LEVY HEARD HER: Author’s interview with Miranda Levy.

397 IF SHE HAD BOUGHT: Author’s interview with Sally Foster.

Nineteen: Lady of the Corridor

398 FOR THE REMAINDER : Richard Lamparski interview with Dorothy Parker.

398 SHE MADE JOKES: New York
World-Telegram,
August 3, 1965.

399 SHE IMPRESSED MILFORD: Author’s interview with Nancy Milford.

399 MEETING HER AT A PARTY: Author’s interview with Stella Adler.

399 AS HIS WIDOW: Author’s interview with Rebecca Bernstien.

400
I
CAN’T USE MY TYPEWRITER:
New York Herald Tribune
, April 8, 1965.

400 I AM ALWAYS A LITTLE SAD: Dorothy Parker, “New York at 6:30 P.M.,”
Es. quire
, November 1964, p. 101.

401 OVER THE YEARS: Dorothy Parker, “Oscar Levant,” in Roddy McDowall,
Double Exposure
, Delacorte Press, 1966, p. 42.

401 WHEN DOROTHY LEARNED OF IT: Hellman,
An Unfinished Woman
, pp. 194—5.

402 SHE HAD BEEN OHLIGED: Leah Salisbury letter to Dorothy Parker, March 9, 1964, Leah Salisbury Collection.

402 A STORY ON THE SOCIETY PAGE:
New York Herald Tribune
, April 8, 1965.

403 THAT WASN’T THE CASE: Author’s interview with Andrew Anspach.

403 SHE VENTED: Cooper, p. 114.

403 GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY: Richard Lamparski interview with Dorothy Parker.

404 AS A JOKE:
New York Herald Tribune
, April 8, 1965.

404 THEY WERE AS BAD: Richard Lamparski interview with Dorothy Parker.

404 HER OTHER PASTIME: Ibid.

405 DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS: Author’s interview with Heywood Hale Broun.

405 RUTH GOETZ DISCOVERED: Author’s interview with Ruth Goetz.

406 DOROTHY’S ALCOHOLISM: Hellman,
An Unfinished Woman
, pp. 193—4.

406 WHEN JOSEPH BRYAN TELEPHONED: Author’s interview with Joseph Bryan.

406 FEW NEW PEOPLE: Dorothy Parker, “Not Enough,”
New Masses
, March 14, 1939, p. 4.

406 SOME OF THEM WOULD HAVE AGREED: Hellman,
An Unfinished Woman
, p. 194.

406 THE FALL SHE RETURNED: Dorothy Parker telegram to Sara Murphy, October 20, 1964.

406 SHE COMPLAINED : Cooper, p. 114.

406 AS HE WAS LEAVING: Author’s interview with Frederick Shroyer.

407 WHEN SHE BROUGHT HER: Leah Salisbury letter to Lillian Hellman, July 5, 1967, Leah Salisbury Collection.

408 1 CAN’T WRITE: Author’s interview with Parker Ladd.

408 IT WOULD GIVE HER: Cooper, p. 57.

408 THE TAPINGS: Wyatt Cooper quoted from these 1967 tapes in his
Esquire
profile written the year after Dorothy’s death. Upon Cooper’s death in 1978, the tapes passed into the possession of his widow, who declines to make them public.

408 MY WIFE, WROTE COOPER: Cooper, p. 114.

409 HAVE YOU BEEN INVITED: Author’s interview with Parker Ladd.

409 OH, YES, SHE FLUTED: Cooper, p. 114.

409 I COULD NOT HEAR A
WORD:
Louis Auchincloss letter to author, May 1982.

410 SHE’S GONE. Guiles, p. 285.

410 A FEW MINUTES LATER: Unidentified newspaper clipping.

411 THE STORY HAD BEGUN:
New York Times
, June 8, 1967.

411 KATE MOSTEL RECALLED: Author’s interview with Kate Mostel.

411 IF SHE HAD HER WAY:
New York Times
, June 10, 1967.

411 AFTER THE MOURNERS: Ibid.

411 OH, LET IT BE: Parker, “Testament,”
The Portable Dorothy Parker
, p. 92.

412 AS ONE OF HER BIOGRAPHERS: Moody, p. 347.

413 IT’S ONE THING: Nora Ephron, “Lillian Hellman Walking, Cooking, Writing, Talking—”
New York Times Book Review
, September 23, 1973, p. 51.

413 TO PLAYWRIGHT HOWARD TEICHMANN: William Wright,
Lillian Hellman, the Image, the Woman,
Simon & Schuster, 1986, p. 311.

413 ACCORDING TO HELLMAN’S MEMOIRS: Hellman,
An Unfinished Woman
, pp. 196—8.

413 AS MARTHA GELLHORN WROTE: Gellhorn, p. 296.

414 I COULD WRITE YOU SO MUCH: Frank Sullivan letter to Ann Honeycutt, June 13, 1967, in Sullivan, pp. 214—15.

Index

Acosta, Mercedes de

Adams, Esther Sayles Root

Adams, Franklin Pierce

column written by

extramarital affairs of

on Parker

Parker and

Adams, Maude

Adams, Minna

Adams, Samuel Hopkins

Adams, Timothy

Addams, Charles

Adding Machine, The
(Rice)

Adler, Polly

“Advice to the Little Peyton Girl” (Parker)

After Such Pleasures
(Parker)

Agee, James

Ainslee’s

Algonquin Hotel

ambience of

Parker’s suite in

Algonquin Round Table

alcoholism among members of

atmosphere of

bon mots heard at

charter members of

decline of

first meeting of

as legend

outsiders’ reactions to

summer retreat of

theatrical productions of

women at

writing inspired by

see also individual members

American Communist Party

Parker’s association with

American Mercury

Ames, Elizabeth.

Anderson, Jane

Anspach, Andrew

anti-Semitism

“Any Porch” (Parker)

Appointment in Samarra
(O’Hara)

Arcaro, Nancy

“Arrangement in Black and White” (Parker)

“Artist’s Reward, The” (Parker)

Asquith, Margot

Atkinson, Brooks

Auchincloss, Louis

“Autumn Valentine” (Parker)

Bainter, Fay

“Ballade at Thiry-five” (Parker)

Bankhead, Tallulah

“Banquet of Crow, The” (Parker)

Barach, Alvan

Baragwanath, John

Barry, Philip

Barrymore, Ethel

Baruch, Bernard

Baskerville, Charles

Beer, Hiram

Beggar on Horseback
(Connelly and Kaufman)

Bellow, Saul

Bell Syndicate

Benchley, Charles

Benchley, Edmund

Benchley, Gertrude Darling

husband’s relationship with

Parker and

Benchley, Jennie

Benchley, Nathaniel

Benchley, Robert Charles

acting career of

death of

diaries of

drama criticism of

drinking habits of

education of

extramarital affairs of

family life of

humorous style of

illness of

money problems of

Parker’s estrangement from

Parker’s fictional treatment of

Parker’s friendship with

personality of

at
Vanity Fair

Benchley, Robert Charles, Jr.

Benét, William Rose

Berkeley, Martin

Berlin, Irving

Bernstein, Leonard

Bernstien, Oscar

Bernstien, Rebecca

“Big Blonde” (Parker)

blacklist, Hollywood

Blitzstein, Marc

Bobbed Hair

Boissevain, Eugen

“Bolt Behind the Blue, The” (Parker)

Boni and Liveright

Bookman

Boothe, Clare

Boyle, Jack

Brace, Clement

Brackett, Charles

Brice, Fanny

Broun, Heywood

drinking habits of

Parker and

personal style of

Round Table and

Broun, Heywood Hale “Woody,”

Bryan, Joseph

Burke, Billie

Burr, Courtney

Business Is Business
(Parker and Kaufman)

But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes
(Loos)

Cabell, James Branch

Caesar, Arthur

Caesar’s Wife
(Maugham)

Cagney, James

California State College

Campbell, Alan

acting career of

army service of

death of

Parker’s collaboration with

Parker’s marriages to

Parker’s relationship with

Campbell, Harry Lee

Campbell, Hortense Eichel

Candide
(Bernstein, Hellman and Wilbur)

Capote, Truman

Carson, Robert

Case, Frank

Case Against Mrs
.
Ames, The

“Cassandra Drops Into Verse” (Parker)

Castle, Irene

Cavett, Frank

Cerf, Bennett

“Certain Lady, A” (Parker)

Chaplin, Charlie

Chase, Edna Woolman