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Alexander Woollcott: "An entertaining piece...
Alexander Woollcott: "Really superb work by Mary Newcomb...
...Woollcott is not only a dramatic critic, he is an essayist of marked abilities. In addition to these facts, his person is engaging enough to have jumped bodily from the pages of Charles Dickens, an author whom, by the way, he greatly admires. In the first place he is short, rotund, jovial, given to elaborate and biting statements punctuated by gestures which are often as grotesque as they are incisive. Then, he was born in Phalanx, New Jersey. That, in itself, is Dickensian. Woollcott, to me, is the most interesting of our dramatic critics, for he not only seems...
...first time I ever saw Alexander Woollcott was in Heywood Broun's Paris studio, on New Year's Eve, 1918. He was then a private in the United States Medical Corps, and his O. D.'s made him look more like Bairnsfather than Dickens...
...publicized hostelry for over five months, so far as I know the group may be actually a myth by now, as it always tended to be. Still, Richard Barthelmess, a most serious-minded young man, spoke of it with awed accents not long ago; so probably the effervescent Mr. Woollcott is still its gayest respected member and it has probably become the Rotary Club of literary New York...