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...WOOLLCOTT, His LIFE AND His WORLD - Samuel Hopkins Adams -Reynal & Hitchcock...
NONE BUT A MULE-Barbara Woollcott-Viking...
...patchwork of mildly amusing reminiscences by one of Alec Woollcott's four nieces about her pleasantly eccentric family. Polly, the rebel, wanted one of the dog's bones and was willing to wear the dog's collar and live in his kennel to get it. Lynn Fontanne tried vainly to make an actress of Barbara. Uncle Alec disapproved of his nieces and insulted them, but entertained them with inappropriate magnificence on their rare visits to New York...
...Most ardent chronicler of the Bennett case was the late Alexander Woollcott. Some years after the trial, he dug up a possibly apocryphal footnote. Mrs. Bennett was again playing bridge. This time her partner, a young man unacquainted with her past, overbid. As he laid down his hand, he casually murmured: "Partner, I'm afraid you'll want to shoot me for this." Commented Woollcott: "Mrs. Bennett had the good taste to faint...
...Letters reflect the brimming Woollcott emotions. "I just cried quietly," he wrote to Noel Coward after seeing the Lamb of God's movie, In Which We Serve. "Courage is the only thing that makes me cry." After previewing Goodbye, Mr. Chips, he burst into "a great, astonishing sob" and fell down the projection-room stairs. "One of the characters in Of Mice and Men," he wrote to Harpo Marx, "is an amiable and gigantic idiot. . . . I tried to get [Heywood] Broun to take this part and he was very hurt." "Just a big dreamer," said Harpo of Woollcott, "with...