Algonquin Round Table

Ah.

So the, the stout, the staff of the bar becomes the Algonquin Round Table, Sam Goldwyn, John Barrymore.

Oh my gosh.

They, and I thought this way, 'cause I was thinking as a producer, "I want a small cast, I want one set.

Yeah.

So at one point in her 20s as a New Yorker writer, Han had the opportunity to sit at the Algonquin Roundtable.

But it seems like, you know, the life of Dorothy Parker maybe would have kind of bored her.

Do you think that's true?

I was a really cool kid, is what I was trying to say.

And obviously Robert Benchley was a member of the Algonquin Round Table, and he and Dorothy Parker were best friends.

I, I guess I think I, I really identify with Robert Benchley more than Dorothy Parker because my role has always been to be the, the, the uncool friend of somebody much cooler, and that's, that's kind of the, um, the relationship they had.

Um, she's, you know, he, he, he's kind of the Daria to Robert Benchley's, like Daria's cool friend whose name I forget.

The Penguin Classics edition is great, and they did a really cute edition with, um, cover design by the cartoonist Seth, who's kind of the, uh ...

He's, he's probably the ideal artist to do the cover for it because he has a style very much like a 1930s cartoonist like Louis Williams.

And if you picture, um, Dorothy Parker and the other Algonquin Round Table wits, you are probably going to picture them drawn in the style of Louis Williams.

If only because in that one episode of The Simpsons where Homer, um, gets drunk and then imagines that he was being an Algonquin table style wit while he was drunk, his flashback is drawn in a Louis Williams style.

... just a few years after this film was made.

He was sort of the famous Algonquin Round Table wit.

And so he's a great presence in this film, but-

Mm-hmm

The drink is believed to have been named after the Algonquin Hotel in midtown Manhattan, where it was likely first created.

The hotel grew famous for many of its patrons, particularly those of the Algonquin Round Table, an informal social club of writers, critics, and actors, and other cultural luminaries of the era, including Dorothy Parker, Harpo Marx, Blyth Daly, George S. Kaufman, and many others.

Ironically, the group peaked during the years marked by prohibition, of which the Algonquin Hotel's owner, Frank Case, was a vocal supporter.

He prohibited alcohol service at the hotel in 1917, three years prior to it being outlawed." And that is courtesy of liquor.com, uh, in an article by, uh, Dylan Garrett.