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)
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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?
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