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A Place Called the Garden of Allah

  • Jon Ponder
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‘I’ll be damned if I’ll believe anyone lives in a place called the Garden of Allah.’

– Thomas Wolfe, in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, July 26, 1937
  • November 16, 2020
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Garden of Allah

  • A Place Called the Garden of Allah
  • Introduction
  • In This Exhibit
  • 1. DEVILISH AMBITION
    • Nazimova
    • Broadway Phenomenon
    • Movies
    • Photographs of Nazimova 1905-1916
    • Star Treatment
  • 2. TREMENDOUSLY HAPPY
    • Hayvenhurst
    • Garden of Alla
    • Photographs of the Garden of Alla
    • Valentino
    • Salome
    • Betrayal
  • 3. MAGNIFICENT HOSTELRY
    • Grand Opening
    • ‘The Miracle’
    • Famous Guests 1927
    • Money Troubles
  • 4. CONTINUAL TUMULT
    • Central Holding
    • Famous Guests in the Early 1930s
    • The Algonquins: Gone West and Childish
    • Everything Was Shaking
    • Schwab’s
    • The Legendary Swimming Pool
    • Bogart
  • 5. MARTINI TIME
    • Infidels: Scott and Sheilah
    • Nazimova Returns
    • The Garden’s Playground
    • More Guests form the 1930s
    • The Garden at War
    • Gloria Stuart’s Rationbook Dinner Parties
    • Bogart Returns
    • Farewells
  • 6. KISMET
    • Decline
    • ‘Gotta Get a Grip’
    • Tatty
    • Vanderbilts at the Garden Allah
    • ‘All the Hookers in the World’
    • Guests in the Late 1940s and ’50s
    • The Last of Errol Flynn
    • The End Begins
    • All That Remains
  • In This Exhibit
  • Introduction
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