Summer 1929
Scott begins writing series of short stories for College Humor. The first in series, The Original Follies Girl, is published July 1929.
The publication of Scott's The Last of the Belles in The Saturday Evening Post.
Fourth trip to Europe. With their endless discontentment with life in general continuing, and the lease running out on Ellerslie, they plan and set sail on their fourth trip to Europe. They sail to Genoa on the Conte Biancamano. They travel from Genoa along the Riviera, then on to Paris in April, where they take an apartment on rue Mezieres. Zelda immediately starts ballet lessons again with Egorova .
Although Hemingway is in Paris, the friendship between him and Scott was beginning to cool. This was not helped in June when Scott was a timekeeper in a boxing match between Hemingway and Canadian novelist Morley Callaghan. Scott let the 3 minute second round run on for an extra minute, in which time Callaghan knocked Hemingway down. Hemingway was convinced that Scott had allowed the time to run on deliberately and, reportedly, nursed a grudge against Scott for it for the rest of his life.
Zelda's article, Paint And Powder, appears in The Smart Set under Scott's name.
The Fitzgeralds go on a dinner date with the Callaghans. The Callaghans are taken aback when during the middle of the meal when Zelda, for no apparent reason, suddenly burst out laughing. They planned to go roller skating after the meal, but Scott grabbed Zelda by the arm and told her it was time for her to go home to bed. Scott explained to the Callaghans that the ballet practising was putting a strain on Zelda. When Callaghan asked why she wanted to dance, Scott said she ”wanted to have something for herself, be something herself.”