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Alexander Woollcott, former dramatic critic of the New York Times, the World, and the Sun, will speak in the Living Room of the Union at 8 o'clock tonight. He has chosen as his subject, "Behind the Scenes...
...Woollcott is one of the best known and wittiest of New York's dramatic critics. His experiences with the stage and journalism have been wide and interesting, and as he has an exceptional first hand knowledge of the production and writing of all varieties of dramatic work...
...talk will be chiefly concerned with plays of the current season, criticism of them, stories of how they came to be produced, and a general survey of the difficulties experienced in getting a play on the boards. Mr. Woollcott has a fund of interesting anecdotes about the stage and stage people...
...This Year of Grace" is a plain spectacle, not to be compared to the Broadway durbars of Mr. White and Mr. Carroll, and plumes and rosettes are absent from what Mr. Woollcott used to term the decor. Except for the miraculous waltzing of Mr. George Fontana and Miss Marjorie Moss, it is, in the matter if beauty, no great shakes, as Mr. St. John Ervine would call it. Mr. Walkley once said of Pavlowa that she was not like flame and wind, but that flame and wind were like her. I wish I had time to think of something equally...
Married. Helen Hayes, famed & winsome actress (What Every Woman Knows, Coquette); and Charles MacArthur, playwright (Lulu Belle, The Front Page, with Ben Hecht); in Manhattan. Of the wedding party were Critic Alexander Woollcott, Novelist Ben Hecht...