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...nostalgic than a session in night court. To honor the 50th anniversary in the theater of Actress Peggy Wood (Bittersweet, Blithe Spirit), ANTA last week collected round her most of the remaining members of the much-chronicled Algonquin Round Table. The late great wits were missing, of course-Alexander Woollcott, Franklin P. Adams, Robert Benchley, Herman Mankiewicz-and, significantly, the reunion was held not at the old rear-center table in the Rose Room of the Algonquin but in the grand ballroom of Manhattan's Hotel Edison, five blocks and 90 light-years away. The most notable living absentees...
When Alexander Woollcott asked to see the collection, Barnes sent him a nasty note signed with the name of his dog (which was, impressively enough, Fidèle de Port-Manech). Walter P. Chrysler Jr. got a "rejection slip" signed by a fictitious secretary named Kelly. Though the young James Johnson Sweeney managed to make the grade, the Modern Museum's Alfred Barr Jr. was rudely rebuffed by Barnes, and Lloyd Goodrich of the Whitney Museum never got in at all. Members of the faculty of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts were banned as being "habitually...
Adams could remember a happier and a more literary time, when a handful of dedicated writers and editors, among them Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, George S. Kaufman, Ring Lardner, and Harold Ross of The New Yorker practiced their art with a lapidary's care. Clinging together for mutual support, they met weekdays as the Vicious Circle, a social group that lunched at the Algonquin Hotel and traded mots and puns, Saturday nights over the poker table of the Thanatopsis Literary and Inside Straight Club. Of them all, none set journalism's banner higher than the cigar-smoking, pool...
...troops during the Civil War, it was revived for the American Expeditionary Force during World War I, became a little-censored, undisciplined and often brilliant weekly with enlisted and commissioned giants on its staff-among them, Private Harold Ross (who went on to found The New Yorker), Sergeant Alexander Woollcott, Lieut. Grantland Rice and Captain Franklin P. Adams...
...addition to this creative quartet, there are Alistair Cooke, 51, Manchester Guardian correspondent who has pretty much confined himself to acting as host for Omnibus ("Bob Saudek really wanted Alexander Woollcott, but since he was dead, I was picked"); Production Manager Richard Thomas, 35; Set Designer Henry May, 39; and Treasurer George