Woollcott, Alexander (Humphreys)
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Woollcott, Alexander [Humphreys] (1887–1943), New York dramatic and literary critic, and whimsical, gossipy essayist. His books, written in a fancifully embroidered style, include
Mrs. Fiske (1917),
Shouts and Murmurs (1922),
Mr. Dickens Goes to the Play (1923),
Enchanted Aisles (1924),
The Story of Irving Berlin (1925),
Going to Pieces (1928),
While Rome Burns (1934), and
Long, Long Ago (1943). His other activities included radio, stage, and screen performances, the compilation of anthologies, and collaboration with George S. Kaufman on the melodrama
The Dark Tower (1933).
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1939), a play by Moss Hart and Kaufman, is based on the character of Woollcott, who appeared in the leading role. His
Letters (1944) were edited by Beatrice Kaufman and Joseph Hennessey, and his biography was written by Samuel Hopkins Adams (1945).
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Off track Weak characters, wandering story hurts 'At Wit's End'.(Time Out!)
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A happy 'End'
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A happy 'End' on stage at Northlight Theatre
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Guest from hell
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; ...American radio and magazine pundit Alexander Woollcott. And it is here that I immediately...Christian name of his character. Woollcott also became my godfather, although...and his beloved Marx Brothers, Woollcott was arguably the most famous...
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Northlight has 'Wit's' about it
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; ...life characters including Alexander Woollcott, Dorothy Parker, Robert...focuses on theater critic Alexander Woollcott, his infatuation with Jane...Round Table had to feature Alexander Woollcott; he was its mastermind...
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TITLE DEED HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME The Man Who Came to Dinner by George Kaufman and Moss Hart
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FIRST PERSON; Getting the priorities right
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; ...of trouble with deadlines was Alexander Woollcott when he was writing a column...was seated at the typewriter (Woollcott, not Thurber or Ross), virgin...for the week's brilliance. Woollcott began with one of the most common...
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THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER
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; ...based on their good friend Alexander Woollcott, the celebrated theatre critic...rather harrowing episode with Woollcott as his houseguest, and from...of the play starts with "To Alexander Woollcott, for reasons that are nobody...
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Fright plan
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; ...feels thin. Which brings us to Alexander Woollcott. The great raconteur had a weakness...archives of the Paris police." Woollcott relates the tale with relish...sleep upon me in record time.) Woollcott goes on to note the story's...
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Alexander Woollcott
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Alexander Woollcott 1887-1943, American author and critic...grad. Hamilton College, 1909. Woollcott's flamboyant personality combined...Long Long Ago (1943), and others. Woollcott was the model for Sheridan Whiteside...
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Woollcott, Alexander
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Woollcott, Alexander (1887–1943), critic. Born in Phalanx, New Jersey...reviews . . . may not have been criticism but they were performances, Woollcott performing so that the emotions of a first night were captured in...
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Woollcott, Alexander (Humphreys)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Woollcott, Alexander [Humphreys] (1887–1943), New York dramatic and literary...a play by Moss Hart and Kaufman, is based on the character of Woollcott, who appeared in the leading role. His Letters (1944) were edited...
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Woollcott, Alexander Humphreys
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Woollcott, Alexander Humphreys (1887–1943), American dramatic critic, reputedly the prototype of Sheridan Whiteside in The Man Who Came...
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Harold Ross
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...in his later life, notably the belle-lettrist Alexander Woollcott. While in Paris with the army he married Jane Grant...Miller, Dorothy Parker, Laurence Stallings, and Alexander Woollcott. The New Yorker began publication in February 1925...
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