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Among those who will speak are James Byrne '77, Thomas W. Slocum '90, Richard Douglas '12, Heywood Broun '10, Alexander Woolcott, Robert C. Benchley '12, Richard Washburn Chiki '03, and Owen Wister...
First-nighters were recently amazed to learn that the leading critics of the metropolitan papers had consented to review the show at the opening night of the Columbia Theatre, New York's principal burlesque theatre. Broun and Benchley and Woolcott, and all the rest of them, occupied aisle seats at the performance, and printed their formal reviews in their publications. The meaning of the incident soon became plain: the authorities recognized the effort made by the better element in burslesque to clean house. The most prominent theatrical personages paid homage to the wagers of the bitterest war that the theatre...
Alexander Woolcott-"A dauntless production . . . which will probably remain at best in the limbo reserved for distinguished aspirations...
Alexander Woolcott: "... aroused instant suspicion that the others [in competition for the Harvard Prize] must have been pretty...
Alexander Woolcott: "A quite enjoyable concoction...