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Alexander Woollcott - "Refreshed, magnificent, capable of rocking the Winter Garden with an ancient laughter and flooding it with the rue and the tenderness of an ancient...
...those footnotes of yours (Vol. IV. No. 19, page 23) you mention Critic Woollcott's connection with various papers in Manhattan, but omit his very distinguished service with the Stars and Stripes, the A.E.F.'s weekly newspaper...
Alexander Woollcott-"Miss Miller was followed by a shadow which could not be nipped off by all the nursery windows in Christendom . . . the shadow of Miss Adams...
Manhattanites recalled a time when, for many moons, the Messrs. Shubert similarly banned the rotund, genial presence of Critic Alexander Woollcott* in any of their Broadway pleasure palaces; recalled ruses, disguises, trickery resorted to by the genial Woollcott to deceive the Messrs. Shubert and slip in unperceived; recalled the waning of that feud, a reconciliation and Critic Woollcott's presence again regularly gracing an aisle seat whenever the Messrs. Shubert had something new wherewith to beguile the public in its idle hours...
...Critic Woollcott has been variously associated with The New York Times, The New York Herald and The Sun (New York...