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...barracks to be quarantined, Gummo and Harpo enlisted. Groucho and Chico joined organizations for entertaining soldiers. Harpo reached France with the 7th Regiment. He worked as a reporter for the Stars & Stripes, like Editor Harold Ross of the New Yorker, Colyumist Franklin Pierce ("F. P. A.") Adams and Alexander Woollcott. With them he helped form the famed Thanatopsis Club, for poker...
...Alexander Woollcott wrote a play," he continued. "He had been a dramatic critic for years, and when his play was shown the other critics got together and blew it up?they made...
Unhappily, Dr. Sirovich, in his remarks before the Patents Committee, had made several errors of fact. Of the 75 Manhattan playhouses available for the production of legitimate drama, 29, not ten, were operating last week. The Woollcott play to which he referred, The Channel Road, written in collaboration with George S. Kaufman, was presented in 1929 and promptly retired under the almost unanimous damnation of fellow critics...
First the Theatre Guild got the script of Brief Moment, asked Mr. Woollcott to play the easygoing, quipful part of the helpful intermediary. He refused. Then Katharine Cornell bought it, made the same request. Somewhat puzzled, Mr. Woollcott read the play, soon discovered why his services were in such demand. Playwright Behrman's stage direction for the part was: "He should look like Alex ander Woollcott as much as is physically possible." Showered with congratulatory telegrams and flowers, attired in green silk dressing gown and blue silk pajamas, Actor Woollcott found himself an instantaneous success the morning after...
Short, portly Alexander Woollcott...