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They met for lunch every day at a round table at the Algonquin Hotel and traded Quip s, many of them still repeated today. The group began meeting in June 1919 when several of its members returned from World War I where they met on the Army newspaper '' Stars And Stripes ''. There was no formal membership, so people came and went, but the primary members included:
Others from the theatre and publishing world visited. Since some of the members were popular newspaper columnists who repeated some of the conversations in their columns, the quips got wide circulation. Sometimes they were unkind. One story is that when Dorothy Parker was informed about the death of President Calvin Coolidge , she replied, "How can they tell?" Members often visited ''Neshobe'', a private island owned by Alexander Woollcott, located on eight acres in the middle of Lake Bomoseen in Vermont. The Algonquin Hotel leaves their table set with namecards of the famous people who sat there. There is also a painting depicting the Round Table, painted by Natalie Ascencios , that hangs in the hotel dining room. A film about the members, '' The Ten-Year Lunch '' (1987), won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. A 1995 movie about the group was entitled '' Mrs. Parker And The Vicious Circle ''. There is also a musical about it called "The Talk of the Town" that is performed in the Algonquin's Oak Room cabaret. EXTERNAL LINKS
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