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...that rococo personality, Monty Woolley-known to his friends as "The Beard." As Lecturer Sheridan Whiteside, of George S. Kaufman's and Moss Hart's cutthroat comedy (TMWCTD), Actor Woolley merely transfers to celluloid, for the exquisite benefit of cinemaddicts and posterity, the unexpurgated version of Alexander Woollcott which he played for two years on Broadway. The switch from Broadway to Hollywood is scarcely noticeable...
...almost everyone knows by now, TMWCTD is the tale of a famous crosscountry lecturer who is forced to go to a dull dinner party in Mesalia, Ohio, injures a hip on his hosts' icy steps, and has to stay for weeks. The part, originally created for Woollcott himself, has by this time become at least half Woolley...
Babes consumes so much celluloid at such a loud pace that it is one of the most exhausting pictures of this or any other year. Besides the strenuous theatrical Rooney calisthenics, Babes also has waspy Alexander Woollcott cooing about young folks and the theater; brigades of vigorous young Americans doing dance numbers and rushing about; English refugee children conversing with their parents by short wave. It also has a plot...
Alexander Woollcott's broadcast offered an illuminating glimpse of the oldtime Hotel Algonquin intellect at grips with the new world war. Puffed up with self-deprecation, mellow Mr. Woollcott could not deflate himself as a hero without triumphing once more as a raconteur. He told how he had "pricked up these old ears" in a London police station at the accent of the boy ahead of him, found he was 21-year-old Steve Traski from Jersey City, who had shipped three times out of Halifax, been torpedoed twice before he finally got to London to enlist with...
This tale of humble guts was related with the familiar Woollcott graces, the cheerfully dry eye, the careful throb. In Jersey City, Mayor Frank Hague, listening, sent a police car around to tell the boy's mother that he was safe. Woollcott had landed and the human interest situation was well in hand...