Difference between revisions of "Nightlife and Entertainment"

From OutHistory
Jump to navigationJump to search
Line 6: Line 6:
  
  
[[Image:Bittersweet.jpg|thumb|635px|center|"We All Wear the Green Carnation" from Noel Coward's ''Bitter Sweet'', Act 3, Scene 1. Courtesy of British Pathé.]]  
+
[[Image:Bittersweet.jpg|thumb|635px|center|"We All Wear the Green Carnation" from act 3, scene 1 of Noel Coward's 1929 operetta ''Bitter Sweet'.' Courtesy of British Pathé.]]  
  
  

Revision as of 20:18, 10 May 2011

"You would be stimulated anew by contact with this strange and vital city. It remains elixir to me. It is inexhaustible." [1]


My dear boy, on thirty-five dollars a week I am living at a hotel which is luxurious and delightful; I see one or two plays (from the upper balcony, it is true, but I don't have to smell the actors to appreciate the play); I dine with several different people each week, choosing those who I feel most like talking at; I visit those ultra ultra spots where drinks cost a dollar each (though I get only one or two) and the like of which is nowhere else in this unfair country. You would have a delightful time here with me.[2]


"We All Wear the Green Carnation" from act 3, scene 1 of Noel Coward's 1929 operetta Bitter Sweet'.' Courtesy of British Pathé.


Brooks Atkinson, 'Bittersweet' Here; Witty and Breezy. New York Times. Nov 6, 1929.

Text Text Text Text TextTextText

Notes

  1. Leo Adams to Merle Macbain, January 2, 1932. Leo Adams Papers, New York Public Library (Hereafter cited by name and date only).
  2. Ibid.


Back to Leo Adams: A Gay Life in Letters, 1928–1952

<comments />