the last book I ever read (Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of the Great Gatsby, excerpt seven)

from Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of the Great Gatsby by Sarah Churchwell:

On the chilly, rainy Monday evening of November 6, most of the writers of the Algonquin Round Table gathered at the premiere of a musical revue they had written with Ring Lardner. The ‘49ers played for a grand total of fifteen performances, until November 18, when it fell flat on its face.