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Bon Bons, Bourbon and Bon Mots: Stories from the Algonquin Round Table
(The Algonquin Round Table, or "The Vicious Circle" as it ...)
The Algonquin Round Table, or "The Vicious Circle" as it was commonly known, came about much like so many social gatherings. A few friends get together, have a good time, and decide it would be fun to do it on a regular basis. Now, give them all literary or theatrical pedigrees and larger than life personalities. Then put them in a time and place that encourages artistic creativity, excessive drinking and some rather outrageous behavior. Lastly, give them national exposure. What emerges is a group that not only sets the standard for contemporary literary style and wit, but helps change forever the face of American culture. This collection contains the early poems, stories and anecdotes from seven of the Algonquin Round Table writers: Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Franklin Pierce Adams, Heywood Broun, Edna Ferber, Ruth Hale, and Donald Ogden Stewart.
AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER. Screenplay (Screen Play / Script) Student Loose Leaf Edition. Greatly Derblemished.
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From original. This is a much cleaner-far less blemished--copy. 106 pages, Student Unbound Loose Leaf Edition, 2012 Directed by Leo McCarey Produced by Leo McCarey Jerry Wald Screenplay by Delmer Daves Donald Ogden Stewart Leo McCarey Story by Leo McCarey Mildred Cram Starring Cary Grant Deborah Kerr Richard Denning Music by Hugo Friedhofer Cinematography Milton Krasner Editing by David Bretherton Distributed by 20th Century Fox Release date(s) July 2, 1957 Running time 119 minutes Language English.PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE BUYING: 106 page UNBOUND BINDER-READY / LOOSE LEAF, BINDER-READY means that the pages are hole punched and ready to be put in binders. PLEASE NOTE THE BINDER(S) ARE NOT INCLUDED. Cover in color. Text in black and white. LOOSE LEAF UNBOUND EDITION NO BINDER. code:okd Y
(Perfect Behavior by Donald Ogden Stewart is a parody outl...)
Perfect Behavior by Donald Ogden Stewart is a parody outline of etiquette by the Author of "A Parody Outline of History" The perfect gentleman is he who never unintentionally causes pain.--OLD PROVERB Contents: The etiquette of courtship -- The etiquette of engagements and weddings -- The etiquette of travel -- At the concert and the opera -- Etiquette for dry agents -- A chapter for schoolgirls -- The etiquette of games and sports -- Correspondence and invitations -- The etiquette of dinners and balls.
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Mr. and Mrs. Haddock Abroad (Lost American Fiction)
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In an Afterword written for this new edition, Donald Og...)
In an Afterword written for this new edition, Donald Ogden Stewart recalls the circumstances surrounding the writing of this book. By 1924 George H. Doran Company had published three books by Stewart. In the spring of 1924 he went to Paris and resided at the Hotel Montparnasse on the Left Bank. There his thoughts turned to another book, something on the theme of Alice in Wonderland or even the antics of the Marx Brothers, he thought. There emerged Mr. and Mrs. Haddock and their daughter Mildred.
As for Mr. and Mrs. Haddock and their daughter Mildred, if they had informed Donald Ogden Stewart, author of Perfect Behavior (a book on etiquette), of their intentions of going abroad there would not have been a book about their imperfect behavior. And Mr. Stewart would have missed out on the opportunity of setting down eventsas, if, and whenoccurring to this Midwestern American family.
But Mr and Mrs Haddock Abroad is more than a period piece or even a perfect example of Donald Ogden Stewart’s humor; it is the classic story of a Midwestern family traveling abroad for the first time, whose broad similarities of experience to that of many another American family provides the perfect parody.
Donald Ogden Stewart was an American author, humorist, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for his sophisticated golden era comedies and melodramas.
Background
Donald was born on November 30, 1894 in Columbus, Ohio, United States, the third (and last) child of Clara Ogden and Gilbert Holland Stewart, a lawyer and Ohio circuit court judge. Self-conscious about his family's modest wealth and his own physical appearance (he wore glasses and had buck teeth that required braces), Stewart grew up longing for wealth and social acceptance.
Eventually he learned that his mother was an alcoholic and that his father had been indicted for stealing money from the Columbus Law Library. The case never came to trial (Gilbert Stewart died that fall), but Stewart was humiliated by the adverse publicity. In addition, his adored older brother Bert died just prior to his father's death. Although Stewart had an older married sister, he assumed the primary care of his mother.
Education
When fellow students teased him unmercifully during his freshman year of high school (calling him Duck Lip and Four Eyes), he convinced his parents to send him to Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1909. He warmed to Exeter's rigorous academic program and its more tolerant and success-oriented student body. Stewart graduated from Exeter in 1912 and returned to Columbus, only to suffer a series of disillusionments.
Despite these family tragedies, Stewart entered Yale in 1912 with a scholarship and loans from family friends. He majored in English, having discovered a latent passion for the arts (particularly music and literature), and was appointed assignments editor of the Yale Daily News.
Career
Stewart graduated in 1916 and took a job with American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) serving in Birmingham, Alabama, Pittsburgh, and Chicago before he was drafted in 1918. Stewart enrolled in the Naval Officers Training School in Chicago, where he served as an instructor for the duration of World War I (his poor eyesight kept him from overseas duty).
Stewart left AT&T in the spring of 1920, worked briefly and lucratively for a private manufacturing company in Dayton, Ohio, and then moved in late 1920 to Greenwich Village in New York City, where writers such as Fitzgerald were beginning to define their careers through the New York magazines. Fitzgerald introduced Stewart to Edmund Wilson, then an assistant editor for Vanity Fair, which published Stewart's parody of James Branch Cabell, followed by similar parodies of contemporary writers as they "reimagined, " in their distinct styles, famous events of American history.
After these sketches were collected and published as A Parody Outline of History (1921), they captured the attention of a wider audience. Stewart followed up with Perfect Behavior (1922), a series of essays that lightheartedly mocked the etiquette books of the day. By the time Stewart traveled in Europe (1922 - 1923), he had established himself as a popular American satirist.
Stewart's career as a satirist shifted somewhat after he experienced the "shock" of modernist art in Paris, where he met Ernest Hemingway and other expatriate artists who were finding Paris artistically congenial and energizing. Stewart's reading of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" shortly after its publication in 1922 influenced his decision to attempt more serious satire, which resulted in Aunt Polly's Story of Mankind (1923). This dark parody of middle-class greed and social hypocrisy caught Stewart's readers off guard, and the book was a critical and financial failure.
Mr. and Mrs. Haddock Abroad (1924) details the naive and nonsensical behavior of Mr. and Mrs. Haddock and their smug daughter, Mildred, on board an ocean liner for Europe, and its deadpan speech and non sequiturs make for the slapstick humor characteristic of what Stewart called his "crazy humor" mode.
Stewart arranged for the first American publication of Hemingway's In Our Time by Boni and Liveright (1925), and he contracted with the firm as well for his own next book, The Crazy Fool (1925).
During the summer of 1925, Stewart returned to Europe and after his trip to Spain he once again traveled with Hemingway to the Pamplona festival. This second trip inspired Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (1926), in which Stewart is the prototype for Jake Barnes's friend Bill Gorton. "A few of the quips" were his, Stewart said later, and overall the book struck him "as little more than a very clever reportorial tour de force. " The Crazy Fool, which utilized Stewart's favorite Horatio Alger success formula as the basis for its humor, attracted attention in Hollywood.
Stewart went to work as a screenwriter for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in late 1925, although he initially found screenwriting uncongenial. He completed Mr. and Mrs. Haddock in Paris, France (1926) while on MGM's payroll.
Stewart was saddened that fall in Paris to witness Hemingway's vindictive streak. Hemingway had written a poetic parody of Dorothy Parker that he read aloud at the MacLeishes. Stewart found the poem in poor taste, and told Hemingway so. It was the end of their friendship. When the Stewarts returned to America in late 1926, they stayed briefly in Hollywood before moving to New York City.
During 1927 and 1928, Stewart wrote a weekly column for the Chicago Tribune, published short humorous pieces in the New Yorker, and tried his hand at playwriting. He hoped to make "the transition from the satirical world of Aunt Polly and The Crazy Fool into the depths of living characters and current human problems. " His first attempt, a collaboration with Max Mercin called Los Angelos, lasted two weeks on Broadway.
Stewart believed that producer George M. Cohan had seriously compromised the play into a "tasteless melodrama" about Hollywood, and he was dismayed that he himself "cared more about money" than about "artistic standards" - he had left his name associated with the work. Stewart continued to experiment with playwriting, hoping to end his career as a "professional 'humorist. '"
He debuted as an actor in Philip Barry's play Holiday in 1928. Stewart had no intention of being an actor, but he hoped to learn more, at first hand, about dialogue by acting in a play. The play enjoyed a successful run, and in 1929 Stewart wrote his own successful play, Rebound, a humorous love story that was voted one of the ten best plays of 1929-1930. Although Stewart continued playwriting, he had little success and returned to screenwriting after the publication of his final book of humor.
By the time the Stewarts moved to Hollywood, Stewart had begun to recognize screenwriting as a craft worthy of respect. He continued to sustain the reputation he had earned during the 1930's as one of the best and most highly paid screenwriters.
Increasingly, Stewart's leftist sympathies made him vulnerable to the attack of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and in 1950 he joined the ranks of artists who found themselves blacklisted. By 1951 he and Ella had moved to London, where they remained until his death.
Although Stewart did some film work in England (essentially dubbing English dialogue for European films) and some work for Hollywood by way of correspondence, his last years were relatively unproductive.
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Views
He defined the good screenwriter as an adapter, one who knows when to leave someone else's material alone and when to change it. He disliked being one of many collaborators on a script, and he resisted being "the man to write the first draft. " Someone would eventually change it so as to gain the screen credits. Stewart's easygoing manner and humor made him a popular scriptwriter.
Membership
He was especially proud of being tapped for membership in the elite Skull and Bones Society. Stewart was also a member of the Algonquin Round Table.
Personality
Stewart's contemporaries, such as John Dos Passos, noted his rangy gait and charm, and they appreciated his self-effacing humor and easy wit, which allowed Stewart to see himself, and the society of his day, with a refreshing candor.
Connections
He courted Beatrice Ames, whom he had met in Paris. They were married on July 24, 1926, and had two children. The Stewarts remained in Hollywood until shortly before their divorce in 1938.
Stewart married Ella Winter Steffens, the widow of muckracker journalist Lincoln Steffens, on March 4, 1939.