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Considerably less evanescent than the play by Samuel N. Behrman in which, performing as Sigrift, Critic Alexander Woollcott scored a sedentary success, Brief Moment emerges in the cinema as a bright investigation of small problems, slick, chipper and reasonably entertaining. Most inevitable shot: Owsley, inveterate cad of the films, sneering at Abby across his cocktail glass...
...eyed Alexander Woollcott entertained his public in The New Yorker last week with a description of a new painting in his bedroom, an autumn view of Sannois by Maurice Utrillo in his familiar, cool grey & white manner. News was the fact that Mr. Woollcott did not own the picture, but had rented it from Inventor John Van Nostrand Dorr-rent ($100 for four months) to go to the Greenwich House Music School. He added...
...idea of renting pictures is by no means original with Scribe Woollcott. Several years ago a number of dealers organized a sort of picture-a-month club to rent good pictures to subscribers with little wall space, rental fees to be applied on the purchase of any picture the subscriber particularly admired. The idea fell through because shipping and insurance costs wiped out the dealers' profit, damage in transshipment estranged artists. Several modern galleries are willing to rent pictures to people anxious to beautify hotel suites for a few months, or to persons of fickle taste like Mr. Woollcott...
Many a non-Harvardite visited Hollis 15: John Barrymore, Christopher Morley, Alexander Woollcott, Henry Major Tomlinson. Henry Van Dyke, and the late Mrs. Fiske who received a famed note, "Minnie: Come to Copey's" and came forthwith. To young fellows "Copey" could be crushing. Two years ago saucy Tom Prideaux, editor of the Yale Literary Magazine, went up to look at Harvard. He visited "Copey," who stared at him and said: "Young man, I trust you are not planning to write any sketches." To an impertinent youth who suggested a headline to describe a fire : "Hollis a Holo caust...
...built two years ago in anticipation of the centennial. They lunched, played games, sang, heard "More About The Founder" from his nephew Charles P. Eells (Hamilton 1874). Then on Labor Day the Alpha Delts banqueted. Only nonmember of their fraternity at the speakers' table was Hamilton Graduate Alexander Woollcott. Alpha Delt Franklin Delano Roosevelt was unable to accept an invitation to be present. But Bruce Barton was on the program as toastmaster, the following were invited as speakers and listeners: Headmaster Lewis Perry of Exeter, national president of Alpha Delta Phi; President Walter Clark Teagle of Standard...