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...Wool enthusiasts all over campus have been putting their needles to work for various amounts of time--some learned last Thanksgiving, while some were practically handed a skein at birth. But, even though spring is fast approaching, it's never too late to learn. Both our Square's own Woolcott and Co. and Porter Square's Mind's Eye Yarns gives lessons for all levels of talent. (Mind's Eye Yarns even gives wool-spinning lessons for the truly hard-core...
...mall, which lies between Tower Records andWordsworth Books, housed seven stores includingGnomon Copy, Little Russia, The Inside Corner, TheMillion Year Picnic-a comic book store, Woolcott &Co. the yarn store, Tumbleweed and Le FootSportif. The mall is now entirely boarded up, itsentrance roped off and surrounded by shatteredglass...
...Algonquin Round Table, a grand gathering of playwrights, critics, writers and comics. Dorothy Parker, George S. Kaufman, Robert Benchley were all there; the Marx Brothers dropped by occasionally. Sherwood Anderson and Moss Hart were frequently in attendance. Knowing that anything witty would be printed, repeated and quoted, Woolcott directed the conversation toward the four topics that interested him: "Theater, friends, murder and anything else that interests me." The Round Table flourished. Only the flight of New York's sharpest tongues to Hollywood forced it to disband in the late 1930s. Woolcott remained in New York, writing, commenting, and broadcasting...
...sleek combination of biography and gossip, Howard Teichman has placed Woolcott firmly in his time. His light direction conveys Woolcott's manner and speech, lapsing melodramatically out of character only at the end of the first act. The lighting, by Vincent DiGabriele, is discrete, the set, by Tony Cooper, comfortable and prepossessing. But most important is Peter Boyden's admirable characterization, which he carries with a presence and manner that convey every nuance of the man. Woollcott would have been flattered...
John O. Whedon--Writer. Has published in Collier's New Yorker, Harper's, and others. In Hollywood, wrote for Ronald Colman, Groucho Marx, Noel Coward, Carole Lombard, Alexander Woolcott, Madeleine Carroll, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Did Duffy's Tavern script...