Monday, March 12, 2012

humorists footnote

I came across this list of the ALGONQUIN Round Table members. (Although there never was an official membership.)

  • Franklin Pierce Adams (1881-1960),
  • Robert Benchley (1889-1945)
  • Heywood Broun (1888-1939),
  • Marc Connelly (1890-1980),
  • Edna Ferber (1885-1968),
  • Margalo Gillmore (1897-1986),
  • Jane Grant (1892-1972),
  • Ruth Hale (1887-1934),
  • Beatrice Kaufman (1894-1945),
  • George S. Kaufman (1889-1961),
  • Peggy Leach (1894-1974),
  • Neysa McMein (1888-1949),
  • Herman J. Mankiewicz (1897-1953),
  • Harpo Marx (1888-1964),
  • William B. Murray,
  • Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
  • Brock Pemberton (1885-1950),
  • Murdock Pemberton (1888-1982),
  • Harold Ross (1892-1951),
  • Art Samuels (1889-1938),
  • Laurence Stallings (1895-1968),
  • Donald Ogden Stewart (1894-1980),
  • Taylor Deems (1886-1966),
  • John Peter Toohey (1880-1946),
  • David Wallace (1889-1955),
  • John V.A. Weaver (1893-1938),
  • Peggy Wood (1892-1978),
  • Alexander Woollcott (1887-1943)
  • 1 comment:

    Sparty said...

    Groucho said he wouldn't want to belong to a club that would have him as a member. I see that Harpo was a member of the Round Table but Groucho wasn't. What does that mean - he wouldn't join or they wouldn't take him?