[Dixielandjazz] Dorothy Parker -- Jazz age quipster

[Bill Biffle]

I've always heard that the "gamut from A to B" line was in reference to
Katherine Hepburn's acting.

Bill Biffle

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Ingle" <dingle at baldwin-net.com>
To: "Mike Durham" <mikedurham_jazz at hotmail.com>; <Jrtnft at aol.com>;
<dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Dorothy Parker -- Jazz age quipster


> Most likely she did. My favorite quip was when she revived an actor's
> performance -- "Her performance ran the gamut of emotions from A to B."
> Oh to have  been a fly on the wall at the Round Table at the Algonquin
Hotel
> in the 20's and early 30's when the New Yorker inner circle and friends
met
> for lunch. Though much written about this time, place,  and people, much
> more was never recorded, and that's the pity.
> Incidentally, a jazz age connect here -- George Gershwin was a regular at
> the Round Table and jazz was certainly part of the flow of conversation.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Durham" <mikedurham_jazz at hotmail.com>
> To: <Jrtnft at aol.com>; <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 10:28 AM
> Subject: RE: [Dixielandjazz] Dorothy Parker
>
>
> > My favourite is her response to a friend who said she had been at a
> > Halloween party, ducking for apples.....  "there, but for a
typographical
> > error, is the story of my life"
> >
> > Apologetically (but she did say it!)
> >
> > Mike D.
> >
> >
> > >From: Jrtnft at aol.com
> > >To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> > >Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Dorothy Parker
> > >Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 07:23:08 EST
> > >
> > >My favorite goes something like this; if anyone knows the exact
wording,
> > >please send it.
> > >
> > >About how many drinks she had at partys, she said not too many and
ended
> > >with
> > >the great line:
> > >
> > >"with two I'm under the table, with three, under the host"
> > >
> > >
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