Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker (born Dorothy Rothschild) was born on August 22, 1893, in Long Branch, New Jersey. She sold her first poem to Vanity Fair in 1914 and later wrote theater reviews for the magazine, until she was dismissed on January 11, 1920, after offending too many people in the theater world. She was a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table, a group of writers and critics who lunched almost daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York.

Her first book of poetry, Enough Rope, came out in 1926 and sold 47,000 copies. It was followed by Sunset Gun in 1928 and Death and Taxes in 1931. The poems are short and witty, and many make fun of her own unsuccessful love affairs. However, some critics think her short stories are her greatest accomplishment, and “Big Blonde” won the O. Henry Award as the best short story of 1929. She also wrote book reviews for The New Yorker as “Constant Reader” from 1927 to 1933.

In the early 1930s, Parker moved to Hollywood and worked as a screenwriter, earning two Academy Award nominations, for A Star Is Born in 1937 and Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman in 1947. As a result of her left-wing politics, she was placed on the Hollywood blacklist around 1950. She died on June 7, 1967, at the age of 73.

Note

I can do without these Olympic stamps. In particular, I don’t like them displayed vertically. A large part of collecting is how items are displayed to be appreciated best. I’d prefer them separated and placed horizontally on the page. One day I may design my own page to replace this one.

Contains 14 spots: own 14 – 14 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot

own

catalog

subject

description

comment

Summer Olympics

1.1	✓	2637	Soccer	29c (jun 1992) comm., multicolor
1.2	✓	2638	Gymnastics	29c (jun 1992) comm., multicolor
2.1	✓	2639	Volleyball	29c (jun 1992) comm., multicolor
2.2	✓	2640	Boxing	29c (jun 1992) comm., multicolor
2.3	✓	2641	Swimming	29c (jun 1992) comm., multicolor
3.1	✓	2619	Baseball	29c (apr 1992) comm., multicolor

Statehood

3.2

✓

2636

Kentucky Statehood

29c (jun 1992)
comm., multicolor

Famous Americans

4.1	✓	2617	W.E.B. Du Bois	29c (jan 1992) comm., multicolor
4.2	✓	2699	Dr. Theodore von Karman	29c (aug 1992) comm., multicolor
4.3	✓	2698	Dorothy Parker	29c (aug 1992) comm., multicolor

Space Exploration

5.1	✓	2631	Russian Cosmonaut & Space Shuttle	29c (may 1992) comm., multicolor
5.2	✓	2632	American Astronaut & Mir Space Station	29c (may 1992) comm., multicolor
6.1	✓	2633	Apollo with Vostok Spacecraft & Sputnik	29c (may 1992) comm., multicolor
6.2	✓	2634	Soyuz with Mercury & Gemini Spacecraft	29c (may 1992) comm., multicolor

Footnotes

Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
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