“Sinbad is produced in accordance with the fine old Shubert precept that nothing succeeds like undress. p. 6”

— Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 (2014) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25758762M/Dorothy_Parker_Complete_Broadway_1918-1923, Chapter 1: 1918

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American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist 1893–1967

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