Word: woollcotts
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...Where whimseymonger Alexander Woollcott will shortly go to play with the Quintuplets in a cinema short...
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a lovingly faithful picturization of the novelette by James Hilton that gave Alexander Woollcott such a good cry five years ago. Like the book, it is sentimental in the precise sense: it exploits emotions which, reduced to propositions, most people would reject as false-e.g., that failure is somehow preferable to success. Shrewdly directed by Sam Wood, the cinementor of the Marx Brothers, Goodbye, Mr. Chips goes out for tears as unscrupulously and efficiently as those merry-andrews go out for laughs...
...Marx Brothers pictures, Harpo (real name: Arthur) Marx, 45, makes standard practice of bounding like a bandersnatch after pretty blondes. He married (1936) a pretty brunette, Cinemactress Susan Fleming. Year ago the Marxes took in an infant on approval, last week legally adopted him. His name: William Woollcott (after their good friend Alexander Woollcott, devoted Marxist...
...Actress is acceptable enough. But beyond that, the reader draws a blank. Either Katharine Cornell, in her devotion to her profession, has lacked time to study things and people or, having done so, she is resolved to keep mum. Dozens of names, from Greta Garbo's to Alexander Woollcott's, from David Belasco's to Orson Welles's stud the pages of her book, but none of them-not even her husband's, Director Guthrie McClintic -ever becomes a face. Toward other actors she is virtually all smiles. About nothing, about...
Heywood Broun began writing his column in the World in 1921; F. P. A. moved The Conning Tower from the Tribune in 1922; in 1923 Walter Lippmann took charge of the editorial page; from 1925 to 1928 Alexander Woollcott flourished as the World's dramatic critic. Rollin Kirby wrote editorials when he felt like it, besides drawing his long-chinned Prohibitionist, his side-whiskered, potbellied G. O. Partisan and many another famed character. He won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1921 (On the Road to Moscow), another in 1924 (News from the Outside World) and a third...