“Swope invited Hadden to his house in Great Neck, where the parties began at midnight and languidly spilled into the next week. The Swopes knew people in the theater, the underworld, in government and high finance; they came to the house and forgot themselves. Upstairs, with his prosthetic leg removed, Laurence Stallings thumped out the second act of What Price Glory? Harpo Marx played croquet on the lawn, encircled by cars with the headlights on, so the game could last all night. F. Scott Fitzgerald, having recently published This Side of Paradise, took in the scene and later brought it to life in his master-work, The Great Gatsby. Wilner, Isaiah. The Man Time Forgot: A Tale of Genius, Betrayal, and the Creation of Time Magazine (Kindle Locations 1190-1193). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition. Wilner, Isaiah. The Man Time Forgot: A Tale of Genius, Betrayal, and the Creation of Time Magazine (Kindle Locations 1189-1190). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition. ”
