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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

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