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...most distinguished pages in American journalism"-the editorial page, whereon David Graham Phillips, Herbert Bayard Swope, Walter Lippmann and the late Frank Irving Cobb had swung crusaders' swords; and the "opp. ed." or feature page, to which sophisticates of a decade had turned for the brilliancies of Alexander Woollcott (drama), Harry Hansen (books), Heywood Broun (who went to the Telegram three years ago following a dispute with Ralph Pulitzer), Frank Sullivan (buffoonery), Franklin Pierce Adams (Colyumist...
Liveliest was the Town Hall meeting which opened with a few amiable pleasantries from moonfaced, unctuous Alexander Woollcott. Up rose shock-headed Lewis Mumford, author of Sticks and Stones, able commentator on modern U. S. architecture, fervent Wrightite, and proceeded in a slow, booming voice to rend the ''wise men from the East" who are designing Chicago's Fair...
...order the Christ crucified. Comment at the village inns that night and on trains back to Berlin ran on the dignity and beauty of the new Christus (Alois Lang), the bewildered aspect of the old Judas (Guido Mayr), the rosy simplicity of the Virgin (Anni Rutz). Reported Alexander Woollcott to the New York Times: "The play triumphed even over the village of Oberammergau . . . uproar, bedlam, mean scramble . . . seats reserved and paid for at a distance may not always be had at the last moment without a dash of bribery. . . . Americans buying something to take home . . revelry . . . Bavarian orchestra playing...
...velvet jackets, keeps pets, plays all his roles with a facile and sonorous emotionalism which does not seem to have its source in the ideas of his authors. He has played Shaw, Hauptmann, Chekhov, Pirandello, Shakespeare Euripides. When he played Redemption in Manhattan (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928) Commentator Alexander Woollcott called his voice "the most extraordinary ever heard in the theatre" and Robert Littell said of his acting: "It is a gorgeous bag of tricks . . . it is not a performance...
...only agent for bringing to Cambridge lecturers of national and often international reputations, the Union has rendered an important service in recent years. In the past its list of speakers has included such interesting personalities as Christopher Morley, Count Felixvon Luckner, Alexander Woollcott, Ford Madox Ford, and the arctic explorer Stefansson...