#neysamcmein

McCalls 1924-01 http://flic.kr/p/PQHGAf

McCalls 1924-02 http://flic.kr/p/PuTcNU

Saturday Evening Post v211 n23 [1938-12-03] cover https://flic.kr/p/Ev59Lu

McClure's v50 n09 [1918-07] cover http://flic.kr/p/KYhLDa

Page 149 of screenwriter Anita Loos’ memoir, ‘A Girl Like I’, 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 “overawed by her brilliant mind”. She refers to the group of pals having 'hobbledehoy bad manners’ but with breathtaking cruelty on page 152 herself breaks the confidence of Alec Woolcott who confessed to her he’d 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

McCalls 1932-09 http://flic.kr/p/DSifxs

McCalls 1926-08 http://flic.kr/p/E8YuSd

McCalls 1927-03 http://flic.kr/p/Eh6Ai5