Word: woollcott
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Prominent in the Rotary Club of Literary New York Alexander Woollcott has added a species of small tippet to his facial equipment. What does one call such a beard when it rests on the under reaches of the lower lip? At any rate, the dramatic critic of The New York Herald, after illness, a trip abroad and a sojourn in Vermont, has acquired a new beard with which to astonish early first night audiences in New York City...
...Woollcott is not only a dramatic critic, he is an essayist of marked abilities. In addition to these facts, his person is engaging enough to have jumped bodily from the pages of Charles Dickens, an author whom, by the way, he greatly admires. In the first place he is short, rotund, jovial, given to elaborate and biting statements punctuated by gestures which are often as grotesque as they are incisive. Then, he was born in Phalanx, New Jersey. That, in itself, is Dickensian. Woollcott, to me, is the most interesting of our dramatic critics, for he not only seems...
Alexander Woollcott: "Generously cast ... a source of innocent merriment...
Alexander Woollcott: " Barton . . . you should mention him in the great company of Nijinski and Charles Chaplin...
Alexander Woollcott: "A sleazy piece...