I-Algonquin Hotel ekuqaleni yayihlelelwe njengehhotela elihlala amafulethi ngomqondo wokuqasha amakamelo angenafenisha nama-suites ngokuqashiswa kwaminyaka yonke kubaqashi abasebenza unomphela. Lapho kuqashwa okumbalwa, umnikazi wanquma ukuliguqula libe ihhotela lesikhashana, ayezoliqamba igama elithi “iPuritan.” UFrank Case, umphathi wokuqala wokuqala, waphikisa futhi watshela umniniyo “lokho… kuyaphikisana nomoya wokugcinwa kwezihambi. Kuyabanda, kuyenqabela futhi kubuhlungu. Angiyithandi. ” Lapho umnikazi ephendula, “Ucabanga ukuthi uhlakaniphe kakhulu, ake uthi uthola igama elingcono,” uCase waya emtatsheni wezincwadi womphakathi ukuthola ukuthi obani abantu bokuqala nabanamandla kule ndawo. Ukhubeke ngama-Algonquins, walithanda leli gama, wathanda indlela elilingana ngayo nomlomo, wanqoba umphathi ukuba alamukele.

I-Algonquin Hotel yaklanywa ngumakhi wezakhiwo uGoldwin Starrett onamakamelo ayi-181. Imenenja Jikelele uFrank Case waqasha ngo-1907 wase ethenga leli hhotela ngo-1927. UCase waba ngumnikazi nomphathi waze washona ngo-1946.

Ithebula le-Algonquin Round elidumile laqalwa yi-General Manager Case neqembu labalingisi baseNew York City, izintatheli, abezentatheli, abagxeki nababhali ababehlangana nsuku zonke emini kusukela ngoJuni 1919. Bahlangana ingxenye engcono yeminyaka eyishumi egumbini lasePergola. (manje ebizwa nge-Oak Room). Amalungu eCharter afaka uFranklin P. Adams, umbhali wephephandaba; URobert Benchley, usomahlaya nomlingisi; U-Heywood Broun, umbhali wephephandaba nomlobi wezemidlalo; UMarc Connelly, umbhali wemidlalo yokudlala; UGeorge S. Kaufman, umbhali wemidlalo yokudlala nomqondisi; UDorothy Parker, imbongi nombhali wesikrini; UHarold Ross, umhleli weNew Yorker; URobert Sherwood, umbhali nombhali wemidlalo; UJohn Peter Toohey, intatheli; no-Alexander Woollcott, umgxeki nentatheli. Ngo-1930, amalungu okuqala eRound Table ayesehlakazekile, kepha lokho okwakuthiwa yi- “Vicious Circle” kwaqhubeka kuphila enkumbulweni emnandi futhi emnandi. Lapho ebuzwa ukuthi kwenzekani ngeRound Table, uFrank Case uzophendula athi “Kwenzekani echibini elikuFifth Avenue naku-42nd Street? Lezi zinto azihlali unomphela. IT Round Table yathatha isikhathi eside ukwedlula yonke eminye imibuthano engahlelekile engiyaziyo. ” Icala lisaqhubeka. “Alikho elinye iqembu engilaziyo lapho iphesenti lempumelelo beliphezulu kangaka. Kwakungekho muntu phakathi kwabo owahluleka ukubeka igama lakhe phezulu emkhakheni ayesebenza kuwo, futhi ngenkathi mhlawumbe ngangingenandaba, ngithatha yonke into kalula, ngangingeyona isilima ngokwanele ukungaboni ukuthi kwakuyi Impahla eqinisekile ehhotela ngendlela yebhizinisi, nokuhlala kujabulisa kimi ukuqiniseka ngenkampani enhle nsuku zonke. Lokho, ngicabanga, kungenye yezinto ezimnandi kakhulu ekugcineni amahhotela ikakhulukazi uma ihhotela lakho lincane; abangane abahle, ukukhuluma okuhle, kanye nokuxwaya impilo. Akudingeki nokuthi wenze noma yimuphi umzamo; zilethwa zintsha nsuku zonke, izindleko zikhokhwa kusengaphambili. ”

Ngo-Okthoba 1946, uBen noMary Bodne waseCharleston, SC, bathenga i-Algonquin ngemali engaphezudlwana kwe- $ 1 million. Babethandane nehhotela ngesikhathi sabo sangemva komshado. Ngesikhathi behleli, babona uWill Rogers, uDouglas Fairbanks, uSr., uSinclair Lewis, u-Eddie Cantor noBeatrice Lily. Kulowo owayenguMary Mazo (Bodne), i-Algonquin kwakuyikheli lokugcina e-odyssey eyaqala e-Odessa, e-Ukraine, lapho ayengumntwana wesibili emndenini omkhulu wamaJuda owabalekela ukubulawa kwabantu lapho esewusana. Umndeni wakwaMazo wathuthela eCharleston, lapho ubaba wakhe u-Elihu avula khona isibiliboco sokuqala samaJuda kuleli dolobha. Ngenkathi uGeorge Gershwin noDu Bose Heyward besebenza ku- “Porgy and Bess, babevame ukuba amakhasimende. Bebezobuye baxoxe ngokwakhiwa kohlelo emadilini asekhaya lakwaMazo. Emashumini eminyaka kamuva, isiko lamaMazo lokungenisa izihambi lizoqhubeka e-Algonquin. UMary Bodne waphekela uLaurence Olivier owayegula, isobho lenkukhu, futhi wazala uSimone Signoret, owayembiza ngokuthi “omunye wabangane bami abathathu ababedlula bonke.”

AmaBodnes adlalela isizukulwane esisha sosaziwayo kwezemibhalo nabakhombisa ezamabhizinisi - njengomlobi uJohn Henry Falk, ngenkathi efakwa ohlwini lwabamnyama futhi edingiswa eHollywood. U-Alan Jay Lerner noFrederick Loewe benze umsindo omkhulu besebenza kumculo omusha kangangokuba ezinye izimenywa zakhononda: lo mbukiso wawuyimpumelelo enkulu ethi “My Fair Lady”

UMnu Bodne, owashona ngo-1992, wathi uzothengisa i-Algonquin lapho idinga amakheshi okuzenzela wona. Walithengisa ngo-1987 ku-Aoki Corporation, inkampani engaphansi kweBrazil yenkampani yaseJapan eyafaka amalifti wokuzisiza ngo-1991. Ngo-1997, u-Aoki wathengisa leli hhotela eCamberley Hotel Company eyaqala ukulungisa kabusha imali eyizigidi ezingama- $ 4. Umongameli wenkampani owazalelwa eBrithani, u-Ian Lloyd-Jones, waqasha umklami wezangaphakathi u-Alexandra Champalimaud ukuthi avuselele izindawo zomphakathi ngaphandle kokucekela phansi umuzwa nesimilo se-Algonquin yomlando.

Ngo-2002, iMiller Global Properties yathenga ihhotela yaqasha iDestination Hotels and Resorts ukuze iphathe futhi ivuselele ukusebenza kwayo. Isibonelo, bafake i-database esezingeni eliphansi yokuhlola ikhompyutha ethola ngokushesha izintandokazi zakho zokufika kwezivakashi. Ngemuva kokulungiswa kabusha kwezigidi ezingama- $ 3, leli hhotela laphinde lathengiswa ngo-2005 kwa-HEI Hotels & Resorts, umnikazi kanye no-opharetha wezinye izakhiwo ezingama-25 ezigcwele. I-HEI iqale ukulungisa ama- $ 4.5 million ukwenza ngcono indawo yokwamukela izivakashi, indawo yokudlela yase-Oak Room kanye ne-cabaret, iBlue Bar, iRound Table Room eyaziwayo nawo wonke ama-suites namagumbi ezivakashi.

I-Algonquin yaqokwa njenge- New York City Indawo eyingqophamlando ngo-1987 kanye nomlando ophathelene nezincwadi zikazwelonke yi-Friends of Libraries USA ngo-1996. Irving Berlin, Charlie Chaplin, William Faulkner, Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Laughton, Maya Angelou, Angela Lansbury, Harpo Marx, Brendan Behan, Noel Coward, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Tom Stoppard, phakathi kwabanye abaningi.

Muva nje, ihhotela lase-Oak Room lifake uHarry Connick, Jr., Andrea, Marcovicci, Diana Krall, Peter Cinotti, Michael Feinstein, Jane Monheit, Steve Ross, Sandy Stewart noBill Charlap, uBarbara Carroll, Maude Maggart, Karen Akers, phakathi abanye.

Ngenkathi uFrank Case, iMenenja Jikelele yokuqala (futhi kamuva eba ngumnikazi) we-Algonquin ebhala imemo yakhe. “Tales of a Wayward Inn” ngo-1938, wacela izivakashi ezingama-30 ezivamile ukuba zibhale izinkumbulo zazo. Abadume kakhulu kwakunguJack Barrymore, Rex Beach, Louis Bromfield, Irvin S. Cobb, Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, HL Mencken, Robert Nathan, Frank Sullivan, Louis Untermayer, Henrik Willen Van Loon. Kodwa-ke, unkosikazi kaFrank Case uBertha waba nezwi lokugcina, Wabhala:

October 10, 1938

Frankie othandekayo,

Ithoni ejwayelekile yencwadi ebhalelwe wena evela kubangani akuyona into umuntu angayibiza ngokuthi ukungqongqoza; empeleni ngenkathi ngiwafunda ngicabanga ngomngcwabo lapho abangane bakamufi bakhulume khona ngokukhazimula, ngokugcwele, kamufi kangangokuba (umfelokazi) owayehleli phakathi kwabakhalayo, wancika endodaneni yakhe encane, wathi, “Tommy, gijima manje, thatha kancane ubheke ukuthi lowo ngubaba wakho yini osebhokisini. ”

NgoSepthemba 21, 2010, i-Algonquin Hotel yamemezela ukuzibandakanya kwayo ne-Autograph Collection, iMarriott Hotel Collection.

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There was scarcely a man among them who failed to place his name high in the field in which he worked, and while perhaps I was rather casual, taking the whole thing for granted, I wasn't stupid enough not to realize that it was a definite asset to the hotel in a business way, and a constant personal delight to me to be sure of good company every day.
For the former Mary Mazo (Bodne), the Algonquin was the final address in an odyssey that began in Odessa, Ukraine, where she was the second child in a large Jewish family that fled the pogroms when she was an infant.
He stumbled on the Algonquins, liked the word, liked the way it fit the mouth, and prevailed upon the boss to accept it.