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I thought that was going to be a good song, too, and then they went and rhymed “time” and “Rhine,” and spoiled everything. p. 24
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014)
There is one thing that appreciably eases the strain for the plays that arrive at this time of year, and that is that practically nothing is expected of them. p. 306
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014)
Sinbad is produced in accordance with the fine old Shubert precept that nothing succeeds like undress. p. 6
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014)
If you arrive late, you won't know what anything is about, and if you are there all the way from the beginning, you won't care. p. 277
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014)
Writing a book for the Follies seems to be about as profitable an occupation as furnishing flannel petticoats for the showgirls. p. 151
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014)
Anyone can do that—the stunt lies in not doing it. p. 8
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014)
Of course, there are many things to be said for the afternoon performance, chief among them being that it cuts in so generously on one's work. p. 201
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014)
It is advertised as “a seagoin’ comedy,” and anytime they go leaving off the final g that way, you know what to expect. p. 324
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014)
The play holds the season's record, thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinée. By an odd coincidence, it ran just five performances too many. p. 121
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014)
There is one thing about Fiddlers Three, though, that held my attention all through the evening: Try as I might I could only discern two fiddlers. p. 42
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014)
This use of soldiers to make a play popular seems too much like taking an unfair advantage of the uniform—hitting below the Sam Browne belt, as it were. p. 93
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014)
Almost overnight, Dorothy Parker was transformed from a woman of letters into a gin-soaked quote machine, with a martini in one hand and a dagger in the other. p. xiii
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014)
To quote the only line of Gertrude Stein's which I have ever been able to understand, "It is wonderful how I am not interested." p. 64
Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014)