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There is oleaginous Alexander Woollcott, larding it over Broadway in the person of Jock Livingston-without any sense of what made Woollcott the most powerful critic of his time. There is Noel Coward, every precious diphthong faultlessly mimicked by Daniel Massey -with only the barest dash of the saline wit that has kept him quoted for almost 50 years. And there is Gertrude Lawrence, played by Julie Andrews. Visually, Julie has vanished into the part. The pert little nose has been thickened, the hairline lowered, the eyebrows thinned, the mouth made severe and straight. It is only the emotional makeup...
...byline in the Saturday Evening Post. He was shy, so much so that he had a hard time rustling funds to start The New Yorker. Though he dealt with the best humorists of his time, he was no phrasemaker. This was about his speed: he once asked Alexander Woollcott to describe him, and Woollcott immediately replied: "Timid." Ross's reply was quick and typical: "You sneaky son of a bitch, you've been in touch with my mother...
...would also join them for lunch down the block at the Hotel Algonquin's fabled conversational Klatsch, the Round Table; among its other members were such quotables as Alexander Woollcott, Franklin Pierce Adams, Heywood Broun, Harold Ross, Marc Connelly and George S. Kaufman. She was pert, provocative, blinking her hazelgreen eyes or raising her pencil-arched eyebrows until they touched the line of her dark bangs as she delivered her acerbic ripostes...
...four major magazines?TIME, LIFE, FORTUNE and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED?and their international editions. * Newspaper obituaries parroted a quote from an unnamed "friend" of Luce: "He is a dreamer, with a keen sense of double-entry bookkeeping." In fact, the remark was used by Harpo Marx to describe Alexander Woollcott...
...author, who grew up in Manhattan's Hotel Algonquin (her father owned it), became a sort of midtown Malory by chronicling in The Vicious Circle and Blessed Are the Debonair the activities of the 1920s' Algonquin Round Table (a luncheon gathering of such literary jesters as Alexander Woollcott, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman), also contributed articles to Vanity Fair and a series of notable theatrical profiles to The New Yorker; after a long illness; in Manhattan...