[78-L] Coolidge

[David Lennick]

Ken "Silver Showcase" wrote:
> Bill Knowlton wrote:
>> The scene: the famous Algonquin Hotel "roundtable."
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>> Somebody rushed in with the news that President Cooledge had died.
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>> Said Dorothy Parker: "How could they tell?!..."
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> 
> That quote has also been attributed to Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the 
> delightfully infamous oldest daughter of Teddy Roosevelt.  (Did she ever 
> make any 78s?)
> 
> -- Ken

I guess Dorothy just had the better flack.

Don't know if Alice recorded..Parker's verse appeared on 78s, but read by Ilka 
Chase. So who asked?

dl