Alexander Humphreys Woollcott (January 19, 1887 – January 23, 1943) was an American drama critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine, a member...
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for their friend Alexander Woollcott, the model for the lead character Sheridan Whiteside. At the time the play was written Woollcott was famous both as...
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Alexander Woollcott for refusing to plug one of Toohey's clients (Eugene O'Neill) in his column, organized a luncheon supposedly to welcome Woollcott...
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Round Table member Alexander Woollcott said it was named after him. Other sources say it was named after the Russian tsar Alexander II. The drink was possibly...
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November 22, 2017. Retrieved December 1, 2020. Woollcott, Alexander (March 1926). "Alexander Woollcott on the Harp of Harpo Marx". Vanity Fair. Retrieved...
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York Times, and the first regular drama critic at The New Yorker. Alexander Woollcott said that Mankiewicz was the "funniest man in New York". Mankiewicz...
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among its members the newspaper columnists Franklin P. Adams and Alexander Woollcott, as well as the editor Harold Ross, the novelist Edna Ferber, the...
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France to reach Paris to write for Stars and Stripes, where he met Alexander Woollcott, Cyrus Baldridge, Franklin Pierce Adams, and Jane Grant, who would...
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Dragons The Dark Tower (play), a 1933 comedy by George S. Kaufman and Alexander Woollcott The Dark Tower (radio play), a 1946 radio play by Louis MacNeice...
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known for its association during the 1920s and 1930s with the writer Alexander Woollcott, a member of the Algonquin Round Table, a group of literary figures...
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