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...probably know as much about the story already, even if you haven't seen the picture or the show, as you do about Alexander Woolcott's glee in having a play written about his thousand-and-one ways to lose friends and alienate people. If he doesn't sue the authors for libel, he has either a magnificent sense of humor or such atrocious manners that he deserves having Kaufmann and Hart throw verbal darts...
Monty Woolley-Alexander Woolcott with a beard-fits his part as perfectly as he does the wheelchair in which he spends most of the film. Better Davis, while she might seem somewhat wasted as the ingenue lead, is pert and smooth as his long-suffering secretary. Reginald Gardner plays Noel Coward better than Coward himself could...
...reading which Mr. Fadiman has liked is interesting in itself and as a revelation of his critical intelligence. He has curious likings--all well justifiable--and he is not a Woolcott to pull Hiltons out of a hat. His book is an anthology which lifts the curse from anthologies...
...trials and tribulations of the family include water-supply, insects in all shapes and sizes, equally troublesome relatives, and a summer theatre. "Mix all these things up," you can imagine Moss telling co-author George, "and we just can't miss. After all, look what we did with Woolcott last year...
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...