Word: woollcott
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...This was Woollcott speaking from London last week on CBS's evening news roundup. In what sense Alexander Woollcott's life had hitherto been cast amid perils was not explained; but there was no doubt that the Town Crier was in character. Besides candy for a Lady, his presents (carried over with his person on a British warship) included 45 pairs of silk stockings, three dozen lipsticks, "yes, and bobby pins...
...wispy beard and a wicked musache, bore down on the part of Sheridan Whiteside, the famed lecturer who goes to a dull dinner party in an Ohio town, gets hurt, and has to stay on in the house for weeks. Looking unaccountably Machiavellian, not at all like Alexander Woollcott, about whom the part was written, Playwright Kaufman was quite professional. So was high-domed Actor Hart, who, as Beverly Carlton, a caricature of Noel Coward, looked like any U.S. traveling salesman...
...means by which we can always be well," lived chiefly on fruits, nuts and grain. Turning his faddery into a business, he manufactured wide-selling cereal foods, broadcast his picture in a breechclout. Canadians knew best his "Roman Meal"; U.S. citizens knew two other products whose trade names Alexander Woollcott shudderfully disclosed: "Lishus," and "Bekus Puddy...
...short roly-poly of 42, resembling nothing so much as an amiable Alexander Woollcott on a smaller scale, he is a dutiful husband,* an ardent dog-lover, an amiable drinker, and loved by his friends. Despite Latin-American fondness for the sanguine (bullfights, the annually-produced slaughter melodrama Don Juan Tenorio, the "Day of the Dead," etc.), Cooper will not in his new job employ his weird Lights Out talent...
...Woollcott is a natural in the by-now-legendary role of Sheridan Whiteside, the literary celebrity who takes over his dinner hosts' home when compelled to remain by a fractured hip. The authors may or may not have written the role with Mr. Woollcott as a model, but in any case the wheelchair prop not only "fits his fanny" as he remarks, but is an admirable vehicle for Woollcott acting, which is strongest in its voice inflection and facial expression...