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A Place Called the Garden of Allah
A Place Called the Garden of Allah
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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
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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 from 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
