Word: algonquin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might be called perfect disaster treatment. It began when passengers on the British steamship Fort Victoria, inching along in the soupy mist toward Bermuda, heard the bedlam of fog warnings, the fierce, hoarse blasts of a whistle which seemed altogether too near. Then the prow of the Clyde liner Algonquin, outbound for Galveston, loomed out of the murk and buried itself with a mountainous thrust in the port side of the Fort Victoria...
Married. Mrs. Beth Sully Fairbanks. 40, divorced wife of Douglas Fairbanks Sr., and of James Evans Jr. of Pittsburgh; mother of Douglas Fairbanks Jr.; and Jack Whiting, 28, of Philadelphia, leading man in the musicomedy Hold Everything; at the Algonquin Hotel, Manhattan...
Married. Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 19, cinemactor; to Joan Crawford (real name Lucille Fay La Sueur), 21, cinemactress; in Manhattan. Cinemactor Fairbanks is Senior Fairbanks' son by his first wife (Beth Sully), who was only family member present at ceremony. Returned to the Hotel Algonquin Mrs. Crawford-Fairbanks wrote: "Dear Mother: It is but an hour since. . . ." Said Cinemactor Fairbanks; "Our affair was a sweet and romantic one." Too busy, they said, to honeymoon, they returned soon after the wedding to Hollywood to resume work, he with First National Pictures, she with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Neither has been married before...
...comedy of the younger generation, still draws the crowds and a curious hodge-podge of critical evaluation, from those who think its smart sophistication eminently satisfactory to those who consider it a hasty re-hash of idle chatter by the smart young New Yorkers one may find at the Algonquin. Jed Harris has two shows on view, the profane and colorful newspaper show, "Front Page" and a not entirely successful fantasy, but a play like none other now in New York, "Serena Blandish", in which Ruth Gordon, A. E. Matthews and Constance Collier depict the languid game of love...
Well, my career in the cinema went right over people's heads and became a financial failure. So I decided to become literary instead, and spent a lot of time in the ris-kay literary invirament of the Algonquin. So my gentleman friend said that I seem to be full of nothing so much as cute ideas, and the ones that are the most amuseing to the reading public are about my un-mental friend Dorothy. Because I use Psychology and understand that there are some people in the world who cannot help it if thier instincks are unnatural...