The Great Gatsby Boat Tour
J.P.
Grace
(1914-1995)
grandson of W.R. Grace, chairman of Grace & Co.
Who’s Who around the Bay c. 1920’s
Harry
Guggenheim
(1890-1971)
He and his father were avid
supporters of aviation technology, friends of Charles Lindbergh; founded Newsday
Oscar
Hammerstein (1895-1960)
American writer, producer, and (usually uncredited) director of musicals for 40 years,
with Jerome Kerns had a smash hit with Showboat in 1927
Jack
Hazzard
(1888-1935)
playwright
Raymond
Hitchcock
(1865-1929)
Broadway performer, producer, writer
Arthur
Hopkins
(1878-1950)
stage producer and director - Hamlet and Richard III on Broadway starring
John Barrymore in the 1920s
Bud
Kelland
(1881-1962)
writer, created fictional heroes Mark Tidd and Mr. Deeds, short stories and
serials appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, popular fiction
J.L.
Laidlaw
chaired the New York State League of
Women Voters in 1920
Ring
Lardner
(1885-1933)
sportswriter, newspaperman, and short story writer - good friends with Fitzgerald
Jesse
Livermore
(1877-1940)
investor, short sold prior to 1907 and 1929 stock market crashes and was
worth $3 million and $100 million post-crashes respectively
Groucho
Marx
(1890-1977)
American comedian and film star
Neysar
McMein
(1848-1949)
magazine illustrator, lived across hall
from Dorothy Parker at 57th St
Ralph
Pulitzer
Basil
Rathbone
publisher of The New York World, resigned in 1930
(1892-1967)
stage and screen actor
John
Revillon
French furrier, executive produced Nanook of the North - 1922 documentary
Harris
Broadway producer
Sam
Harry
Sinclair
(1876-1956)
U.S. oil producer : Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation (later Atlantic Richfield)
Key participant in the Teapot Oil Dome scandal of 1923.
Frances
Alda
(1879-1952)
operatic diva during the first three decades of the 20th Century due to her
outstanding singing voice and colorful personality.
Vincent
Astor
(1891-1958)
inherited family fortune when father died on the Titanic in 1921, dropped out of
Harvard and set out to change the family image; owned Newsweek;
married Brooke Astor 3rd wife in 1953.
O.H.P.
Belmont
(1853-1933)
Alva Belmont divorced William Vanderbilt in 1895. After death of her
second husband in 1908, she dedicated herself to women's rights.
Lyricist, Writer, Producer, Composer,
Gene
Buck
(1855-1937)
Director - Ziegfield Follies and Midnight Frolic, Ed Wynn's Carnival
Eddie
Cantor
(1892-1964)
actor, comedian, singer, and songwriter
W.P.
Chrysler
auto industrialist came to prominence during the 1920s, left his estate to the U.S.
Navy and it is now King's Point Naval Academy
George
Cohan
(1878-1942)
Energized the American musical theater. Best known for "It's a Grand Old Flag,
I'm a Yankee-Doodle Dandy, "Give My Regards to Broadway" and his WWI song,
“Over There” (1917), sold 2 million copies of sheet music and 1 million records.
Jane
Cowl
(1883-1950)
film & stage actress and playwright
American stage and film actor,
Frank
Craven
(1875-1945)
playwright, and screenwriter, best known for originating the role of Stage Manager in
Thornton Wilder's Our Town.
Elsie
Feruson
(1883-1961)
American stage and screen actress,
good friend of Ethel Barrymore
of Weber and Fields, comedy duo,
Lew
Fields
(1867–1941)
who began acting as children in dime museums and beer gardens in and around
New York and later combined slapstick clowning with the immigrant's difficulties
with the English language.
Herbert
Swope
(1882-1958)
editor and journalist born in St. Louis, Missouri. He was the first recipient of the
Pulitzer Prize for Reporting in 1917. Credited with coining the phrase "Cold War."
Max
Figman
(1866-1952)
actor, director
Carl
Fisher
(1874–1938)
of Indiana, an American automotive and
real estate entrepreneur.
Ernest
Truex
(1889-1973)
American actor of stage and film,
tended to play milquetoast characters
Ed
Wynn
(1886-1966)
vaudevillian, radio superstar, Ziegfield
Follies, stage, film and TV actor
F. Scott
Fitzgerald
(1886-1940)
American author of The Great Gatsby, wrote more than 160 short stories many
of which first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post
Copyright © 2008 Eleanor Cox, Great Gatsby Boat Tour
Map “engrossed” by John Held, Jr. (1927), courtesy of The New Yorker Magazine.