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Alexander Woollcott: "Miss Weir gallantly stormed a role that required at least a Duse . . . She needs voice training and experience. Time will inform her how to pronounce 'courage,' for instance, and will gently suggest that an actress making her debut in an emotional role would do well to wash her hands...
Alexander Woollcott: "Elsie Ferguson never seemed lovelier . . . She never played better in her life Mr. Blackmer's solemn and largely inert performance gave only infrequent evidence that he had caught the sense of this fine comedy or, if he had, that he could express...
Alexander Woollcott: "An extraordinarily entertaining comedy of Philadelphia folkways, a genuinely indigenous play of American life, salty, humorous, true...
...least he looks easily ten years younger than he is, and he's still under thirty. He is a Southerner, but long years in the Middle West have quite obliterated any trace of a Southern accent. He attended Hamilton College?this he holds a bond in common with Alexander Woollcott, the increasingly weighty dramatic critic of The New York Herald. As a bitter and somewhat bumptious critic Mr. Weaver made his early reputation on the Chicago Daily News. His columns in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle have been characterized by fearless honesty and a remarkable freshness of expression. Certain...
Fedora. The expertly insulting Alexander Woollcott observed in honor of this production that the "To Rent" sign had been taken off the theatre and "To Rant" substituted. Fedora is a furiously emotional exhibit. It was played by Tilla Durieux (breast beater) ?in German. Just why it was produced nobody has been able to determine...