Word: woolcott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Describing his role of Sheridan White-side as "an actor's dream," Woolley said however that the part "may resemble Alexander Woolcott, but is certainly not a portrait of him." He considers that the play has been much improved since Kaufman and Hart did the third act over: "The audience expects laughs all the way through, and now they get them...
Monty Woolley, as a belabored and not too lovable commentator of the Woolcott school, has a meaty part and takes full advantage of his opportunity. In the process of the play, he manages to make himself a most unwelcome guest, and, in the words of his secretary, well played by Edith Atwater, he is an egomaniac of the first water...
Weekly dinners are held for the Nieman fellows at which they meet leading newspaper men, faculty members, and students. Among the outstanding journalistic guests of this year are Walter Lippman, William Allen White, and Alexander Woolcott. President Conant, many professors and officers of the CRIMSON have attended these gatherings...
...lesson and the succeeding acts are given over to farce, so it is with the current production. It must be said in all frankness, however, that the opening act of the latter is atrocious. Although the make-up department has cleverly turned out a George Jean Nathan, an Alexander Woolcott, and an Orson Welles, these gentlemen's attempts at acting are deplorable, even when allowances are made for first-night stage-fright. Only the skill of John W. Sever '40, as Maxwell Anderson alias Mr. Puff, and the charm of Dorothe Larson of the Bishop Lec Dramatic School induce...
Among the famous journalists whom MacLeish has invited are: Walter Lippmann, Alexander Woolcott, Henry Robert Luce, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace and William Allen White...