Party at the Hotel Florida! (… A Spanish Republican party at that!)
Gelhorn chasing Hemingway. Hemingway hitting Welles with a chair. Capa faking photos. The Duchess eating all the spinach. Philby spying for Stalin. Flynn sneaking out the bathroom window. F. Scott giving his highest praise.* Man, Errol got invited to (and skipped out of)the best parties!
* Doesn’t say so here, but I think John Dos Passos was hanging around the Hotel Florida in those days, too. In fact, didn’t he even write something about a bathroom there once? Heck, who knows, maybe that was the one Errol snuck out of!
— Tim
Hotel Florida article wouldn’t link above, so here it is:
www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-2612486/Hemingways-guide-war-hero-make-HOTEL-FLORIDA-TRUTH-LOVE-AND-DEATH-IN-THE-SPANISH-CIVIL-WAR-BY-AMANDA-VAILL.html…
Thanks Tim, another min. in the life of Errol Flynn!
Errol sneaking out the window,hee hee,that’s great!
Thanks for posting Tim!