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Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker (Dorothy Rothschild Parker), 1893-1967, American short-story and verse writer, b. West End, N.J. While serving as drama critic for Vanity Fair (1916-17) and book critic for The New Yorker (1927), she gained an almost legendary reputation for her sardonic wit. Her first volume of... Read more |
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Dorothy (Rothschild) Parker
Dorothy Rothschild Parker Dorothy Rothschild Parker (1893-1967), American humorist, was known for her biting prose and verse satires. Numerous critics expressed admiration for her unique talent. Born in New Jersey to Scottish-Jewish parents, Dorothy Parker attended Miss Dana's School there... Read more |
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Candide
Candide (1956), a musical satire by Lillian Hellman (book), Leonard Bernstein (music), Richard Wilbur, John Latouche, Dorothy Parker (lyrics). [Martin Beck Theatre, 73 perf.] Tutored by the incorrigibly optimistic Doctor Pangloss ( Max Adrian) who feels we live in “The Best of All... Read more |
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The Little Foxes
THE LITTLE FOXES USA, 1941 Director:William Wyler Production:RKO/Radio Pictures; black and white, 35mm; running time: 115 minutes. Released 1941. Producer:Samuel Goldwyn; screenplay:Lillian Hellman; additional scenes and dialogue:Dorothy Parker,... Read more |
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Franklin Pierce Adams
Franklin Pierce Adams pseud. F. P. A., 1881-1960, American columnist and author, b. Chicago. He began (1903) work as a columnist on the Chicago Journal and continued it on the New York Evening Mail, the Tribune, the World, the Herald Tribune, and the Post. His column, "The Conning... Read more |
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Harold Wallace Ross
Harold Wallace Ross 1892-1951, American editor, b. Aspen, Colo. He founded The New Yorker magazine in 1925 and was its influential managing editor until his death. Ross quit school at the age of 14 to work at the Salt Lake City Tribune. During World War I he edited Stars and Stripes in... Read more |
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Algonquin round table
ALGONQUIN ROUND TABLE ALGONQUIN ROUND TABLE was a group of journalists, playwrights, actors, and writers who gathered daily at a special table in the Rose Room at the Algonquin Hotel on West Forty-fourth Street in New York City from 1919 to about 1929. Their witticisms and jokes appeared in... Read more |
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Anita Loos
Anita Loos Anita Loos (1893-1981) is most famous for her satirical short story collection Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady, which became a film phenomenon starring Marilyn Monroe. She was an amazingly prolific writer who turned out more than 150 works... Read more |
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Kirsty MacColl
Kirsty MacColl Singer, songwriter The virtues of Kirsty MacColl's work—integrity, irony, literateness, and independence—are not ones typically associated with success in the world of popular music, especially for a female artist. Although MacColl never recognized great financial... Read more |
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Parker, Dorothy
Parker, Dorothy [née Rothschild] (1893–1967), critic, poet, and playwright...Katharine Hepburn of running a gamut of emotions “from A to B.” Parker also created highly praised sketches for the 1922 revue The 49ers and co... |
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Parker, Dorothy (Rothschild)
Parker, Dorothy [Rothschild] (1893–1967), after a career as a dramatic and literary critic in her native New York City, during which... |
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Drama Criticism in America
...Robert Benchley, John Mason Brown, Claudia Cassidy, Percy Hammond, Walter Kerr, George Jean Nathan, Dorothy Parker, Henry Taylor Parker, Ashton Stevens, Alexander Woollcott, and Stark Young. Many of these critics departed from the Brahmin... |
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Déclassée
...depicted English high society, it was generally agreed that the strength of the evening came from Barrymore's acting. Dorothy Parker, so often venomously critical, wrote that she had never seen “any other performance so perfect.” |
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essay
...Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Matthew Arnold, Charles Lamb, and William Morris. Noted US essayists include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Thurber, George Santayana, and Dorothy Parker. |
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Barretts of Wimpole Street, The
...was Browning and Charles Waldron was Elizabeth's father. It gave Cornell her most famous role. The often acid Dorothy Parker wrote in The New Yorker, that Cornell “is a completely lovely Elizabeth Barrett—far lovelier than the original... |
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contact lenses
...develop the ocular tolerance necessary for comfortable lens wear. Vanity is a powerful driving force, immortalized by Dorothy Parker's malicious ‘Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses’. Assuredly there are other advantages with... |
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Hepburn, Katharine (Houghton)
...ignominy followed when she attempted the part of Stella Surrege in The Lake (1933). It was of this performance that Dorothy Parker complained Hepburn's gamut of emotions ranged from “A to B.” Although she subsequently toured in the title... |
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Hollywood
...Sidney Howard, George S. Kaufman, Jeremy Larner, Charles MacArthur, Thomas McGuane, David Mamet, Odets, Dorothy Parker, S.J. Perelman, Robert Sherwood, Phil Stong, and Nathanael West. In the post‐World War II era of vigorous... |
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Algonquin Round Table
...included Franklin P. Adams, Robert Benchley, Heywood Broun, Marc Connelly, Russel Crouse, George S. Kaufman, Dorothy Parker, Robert E. Sherwood, Frank Sullivan, and Alexander Woollcott. |
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Nurock, Kirk
...Expedition, jazz trio, Siberian husky (1984); Haunted Messages, pf., barking audience (1984); The Incurable Dorothy Parker, song-cycle, sop., pf. (1986); Gorilla, Gorilla, pf. (1988); 3 Screams, 2 amp. pf. (1990). |
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Candide
...book) originally by Lillian Hellman and lyrics by Richard Wilbur, with some later additions by John La Touche, Dorothy Parker, and Bernstein. F.p. Boston, Oct. 1956. Thereafter work underwent many revisions (none involving Bernstein... |
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Dorothy Parker, Lillian Hellman and the NAACP
...Saturday (NPR) 04-22-2006 Dorothy Parker, Lillian Hellman and the NAACPHost...1200-1300SCOTT SIMON, host: Dorothy Parker died in 1967 at the age...t by herself, she was with Dorothy Parker. So she couldn't have very... |
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Whither Dorothy Parker's Ashes?
...06-17-2006 Whither Dorothy Parker's Ashes?Host: JOHN...host: What's next for Dorothy Parker? The sharp...in New York. Dorothy Parker's mother and father...thought - by us I mean the Dorothy ... |
 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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Honoring the memory of Dorothy Parker
...Honoring the memory of Dorothy ParkerLAWRENCE AARONDate...HISTORY MONTHTHE LATE Dorothy Parker is a New Jersey treasure...than her birthplace is Parker's final resting place...Here lie the ashes of Dorothy Parker (1893 to ... |
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Jennifer Jason Leigh plays Dorothy Parker to kudos but no Oscar nomination....
...is thinking back to the role of Dorothy Parker, the writer and wit who was a...a touch of vulnerability. For Dorothy Parker, her controversial diction is...if she could do a little of her Dorothy Parker, she blanched. ``It ... |
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Acerbic wit of Dorothy Parker was always laced with truth
...incomplete in "Acerbic wit of Dorothy Parker was always laced with...production is about her Dorothy Parker. Name familiar...this season - "Dorothy Parker" and Terrence McNally...573- 4128 IF YOU GO "Dorothy ... |
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The Curse of Dorothy Parker
The Curse of Dorothy Parker Sloane Crosley Is More Than Just a...Crosley's essays without mentioning Dorothy Parker. It is a curse of female literary...Google search of "Sarah Vowell" plus "Dorothy Parker" elicits "About 1,990 ... |
 "The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)")
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The NAACP is pondering a move to D.C., and some wonder what will happen to...
...the attention of writer Dorothy Parker's admirers. Through...the 3,000-member Dorothy Parker Society in New...appropriate location for Parker's remains would be...have bowed a bit at the Dorothy Parker ... |
 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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LIFE, WORDS OF PARKER INSPIRED LEE TO WRITE SONGS; SHE ACTS IN ONE-WOMAN...
...popped a copy of "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle...the life and words of Dorothy Parker that she wrote...musical, "Here Lies Dorothy Parker." Lee, from...Here Lies Dorothy Parker," a one-woman ... |
 "The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)")
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A CENTURY OF ACID-TONGUED DOROTHY PARKER
Witty and worldly-wise Dorothy Parker, born with a pocketful of wry...City issued a proclamation. A Dorothy Parker stamp appeared earlier...soon in paperback) is called "Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This... |
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The Light Of the Round Table; Dorothy Parker: Centenary of a Wit to Relish
Witty and worldly-wise Dorothy Parker, born with a pocketful of wry...Alexander Woollcott. The last called Parker a cross between "Little Nell...soon in paperback) is called "Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This... |
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