Visiting Dorothy Parker and Friends at the Algonquin Hotel (NYC)

In 1919 a group of writers, critics, playwrights, and actors began to gather daily at the Algonquin Hotel on W 44th St in Manhattan. They were all up-and-coming literary celebrities who cemented their status through their participation at the Round Table and included Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, Edna Ferber, Harold Ross, Jane Grant, Franklin P. Adams, and Harpo Marx (among others). We celebrate the writers of the Round Table by staying at the hotel, meeting with the general manager, getting a tour and history lesson from the President of the Dorothy Parker Society Kevin Fitzpatrick, and by meeting Hamlet, the famous Algonquin cat.
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In this episode:
00:00 - Introduction
00:59 - Meeting with General Manager Willis Loughhead https://www.algonquinhotel.com
01:54 - Checking into our room at the Algonquin
03:49 - Meeting with Kevin Fitzpatrick - https://www.dorothyparker.com
05:33 - How the Round Table began
08:41 - Why the Round Table ended
09:22 - Examining a painting of the Round Table members
11:49 - We're in the exact spot where the Round Table stood
12:41 - The Oak Room, where the Round Table began
14:15 - Meeting Hamlet, the Algonquin Cat
15:58 - Outside the Algonquin, and the former Hippodrome Theater
18:35 - Location of the New Yorker Magazine
21:53 - Location of Vanity Fair and Vogue, where Dorothy Parker and Rober Benchley worked
24:01 - Former site of Scribner's Publishers
26:29 - Bringing Dorothy Parker's ashes to Woodlawn Cemetery