Quote: the toast of two continents (antedating Dorothy Parker variant 1956 October 15)

[Garson O'Toole]

The challenge is to antedate the 1970 date for the following Dorothy
Parker quotation:

I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.


Here is a variant attributed to Parker in 1956. The quote certainly
improved over a period of fourteen years.

1956 October 15, Reading Eagle, The Lyons Den by Leonard Lyons, Page
6, Reading, Pennsylvania. (Google News archive)

Dorothy Parker said: "I once was the toast of two continents — Asia and Africa."

Garson

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