16 · 11 September 2025; archived); I’ll quote the beginning and let you click through if you’re interested:Dorothy Parker​ dreaded repetition and found it everywhere. In quantity at least, this was Broadway’s golden age, just before radio and the movies ate up its audiences. Eventually the battlefield smoke cleared from the theatres, but the next slew of melodramas, about returning soldiers, was even more tedious. That means today.’Parker was fired from Condé Nast in 1920, after some of Broadway’s biggest producers (all regular advertisers) complained about her constant savaging of their plays, and of Florenz Ziegfeld’s wife. ‘Her Constant Reader,’ he insisted, ‘did more than anything to put the magazine on its feet, or its ear, or wherever it is today.’