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...Woollcott is not only a dramatic critic, he is an essayist of marked abilities. In addition to these facts, his person is engaging enough to have jumped bodily from the pages of Charles Dickens, an author whom, by the way, he greatly admires. In the first place he is short, rotund, jovial, given to elaborate and biting statements punctuated by gestures which are often as grotesque as they are incisive. Then, he was born in Phalanx, New Jersey. That, in itself, is Dickensian. Woollcott, to me, is the most interesting of our dramatic critics, for he not only seems...
...Author. John Drinkwater, ex-insurance clerk, poet, essayist, one of the founders of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, is probably best known to America as the author of Abraham Lincoln - a play which, in spite of a few minor Briticisms in the original version, remains one of the most faithful and interesting literary portrayals of the rail-splitter President. Mary Stuart and Oliver Cromwell are not as successful as Abraham Lincoln, but in his latest play, Robert E. Lee, Mr. Drinkwater has apparently again struck the bell of success. Robert E. Lee is now running in London and will probably...
DOCTOR JOHNSON (A Play)?A. Edward Newton?Atlantic Monthly Press ($3.50). Mr. Newton, well known Philadelphian, book collector and essayist, here presents, with the assistance of numerous immortal shades, four scenes from the life of that burly Doctor, hater of oatmeal, Scotchmen, professional politicians and cant, who is one of the few among the dead celebrities of English literature whom, via Boswell's life, we can know as if we had met him on the street or suffered his thunderous rebuke in person. In this play Mr. Newton's task has been, avowedly, to string certain gems of Johnsonian...
...stocky man, and a bluff man, William McFee, with a seaman's sense of humor and a book-lover's wisdom. He does not bemoan the vanished days of sailing vessels. His romances are those of the swift modern ships, of merchantman and transport. As an essayist and critic he is almost as well known as for his novels. His opinions of books are often violent; but usually well founded...
...Christopher Morley is a well known poet and essayist and is famous for his colyum, "The Bowling Green", on the editorial page of "The New York Evening Post". Among the most famous of his books of poems is "Songs of Little Houses". "Parnassus on Wheels" and "Shandygaff" are his best known collections of essays...