"a celebrated group of new york city writers, critics, actors and wits. gathering initially as part of a practical joke, members of "the vicious circle," as they dubbed themselves, met for lunch each day at the algonquin hotel from 1919 until roughly 1929. at these luncheons they engaged in wisecracks, wordplay and witticisms..."
Algonquin Round Table, Albert Hirschfeld
At the table, clockwise from left: Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, Heywood Broun, Marc Connelly, Franklin P. Adams, Edna Ferber, George S. Kaufman, Robert Sherwood. In back from left to right: Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt, Vanity Fair editor Frank Crowninshield and Frank Case.
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