Page 149 of screenwriter Anita Loosā memoir, āA Girl Like Iā, in the collection of @library_vic , has been annotated by a vandalising (but accurate) gossip with a Biro and a nasty all-caps habit. Perhaps it was the previous person who ordered up the book - in 1998. Loos made millions from her book Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (& the Marilyn Monroe/Rosalind Russell movie). Loos is scathing about members of the Algonquin Round Table, including Neysa McMein and Alexander Woolcott, although she cannot bring herself to be mean about Dorothy Parker due to being āoverawed by her brilliant mindā. She refers to the group of pals having 'hobbledehoy bad mannersā but with breathtaking cruelty on page 152 herself breaks the confidence of Alec Woolcott who confessed to her heād always wanted to be a girl and then a mother, and asked to be friends. Loos blithely reports she avoided him thereafter. One can only conclude that Ms Loos was clever, and funny, and mean as a spitting possum. #film #scripts #anitaloos #dorothyparker #alexanderwoolcott #neysamcmein #gentlemenpreferblondes #algonquinroundtable #librarians #marginalia #bookdefacing