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...England town-crier cried false reports, he would be placed in a ducking stool, soused again and again to the applause of those whom he had gulled. Last week many a person in Manhattan chuckled at the thought that perhaps Town Crier Alexander (''The Great") Woollcott deserved to have his pudgy body tied to the end of some modern ducking stool and to be plunged screaming into some terrifying bath. For either Crier Woollcott had broken all rules of good town-crying and good reporting, or John Joseph Pershing had worse than weaseled...
...Manhattan dramatic critics Crier Woollcott was once the most conspicuous if not the most famed. A certain peculiarity of gait and of voice marked him as he minced in lobbies between acts, shrilly giving his views...
...Geddes' own press. A bugle sounded before each start. Comic relief was provided by steeplechase events in which obstacles were placed on the course to cause realistic jumps and falls. In all there were 800 horses, owned in groups or "stables" by 100 people, among them Dramacritic Alexander Woollcott, Colyumist Heywood Broun, Artist Peter Arno, Ziegfeld Ballerina Claire Luce...
Farewells. Old and new members of the World staff gave Editor Swope a farewell dinner at the Hardware Club on Broadway. Strong men were on the point of bursting into tears when Alexander Woollcott, famed dramatic critic once with the World, relieved the situation with some good stories. A volume of some 160 letters from staff members was presented...
...have followed St. John Ervine for a long time and know his writing well. He will make a show of himself as a dramatic critic here. Not only will he disgrace himself but he will disgrace the World . . . and his succeeding Alexander Woollcott will be a joke. He is, at times, rather amiable when writing about musical shows, but, on the whole he is a jackass giving imbecilic reviews of most of the plays he attends...