Algonquin Round Table
The Algonquin Round Table was a legendary literary circle, of a loose group of journalists, writers and actors who regularly at the famous Algonquin Hotel in Manhattan, New York City, met.
In June 1919, the first time the theater critic Dorothy Parker Rothschild ( 1893-1967 ), the playwright Robert E. Sherwood ( 1896-1955 ) and the humorist Robert Benchley ( 1889-1945 ) at the Hotel Algonquin in the Upper West Side met for lunch. They formed a literary trio that later Algonquin Round Table was called. During the daily meetings, the participants hot war of words in which sarcasm and alcohol on the agenda were provided.
Membership
Regular participants
- Franklin Pierce Adams, columnist
- Robert Benchley, humorist and actor
- Heywood Broun, columnist and sportswriter
- Marc Connelly, playwright
- George S. Kaufman, playwright and director
- Dorothy Parker, theater critic, novelist and screenwriter
- Harold Ross, journalist and editor of The New Yorker
- Robert E. Sherwood, author and playwright
- John Peter Toohey, publicist
- Alexander Woollcott, critic and journalist
Irregular participants
- Tallulah Bankhead, actress
- Jane Grant, journalist and feminist
- Ruth Hale, journalist and feminist
- Beatrice Kaufman, editor and playwright
- Harpo Marx, comedian and actor
- Neysa McMein, illustrator
- Donald Ogden Stewart, playwright and screenwriter
- Deems Taylor, composer
- Edna Ferber, author
- Ina Claire, actress
- Douglas Fairbanks Sr., actor and producer
Trivia
- The regular meetings and its prominent participants are the reason that the hotel is now part of the cultural heritage of the city of New York.
- Is now located at the hotel, a plaque with a quote from the theater critic Brooks Atkinson: