1. Plenty of noteworthy folks sat in on the action -- including director George S. Kauffman, humorist Robert Benchley, and actors Harpo Marx and Talulah Bankhead.

2. Alexander Woollcott and Harpo Marx both came of age in the pre-­war New York that Chauncey describes, and, if their relationship was not a consummated homosexual pairing, it seems nonetheless to have partaken of the dynamics of fairy and trade—Uncle Acky, uptown, effeminate, neurotic, and verbal, and Little Harpo, downtown, masculine, cocky