Woollcott
Americannoun
noun
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Marx also shares memorable encounters with towering figures of the day, including critic Alexander Woollcott, the wits of the Algonquin Round Table, Howard Hughes and pianist and neurotic wit Oscar Levant.
From Washington Post • Jul. 21, 2022
And the 1940s setting came to her after reading a collection of essays by Alexander Woollcott, a midcentury critic for The New Yorker, in which he profiled a series of prominent actresses.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 4, 2019
Circulation, which had been at about eight thousand in April, fell to a low of 2,719 in August; Woollcott, anticipating the end, asked that his name be taken off the list of Advisory Editors.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 16, 2015
What scholars knew of the work came from mostly the details in a review in The New York Times by Alexander Woollcott, who wrote that “Exorcism” was ”uncommonly good.”
From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2011
In Mrs. Fiske: her views on actors, acting, and the problems of production, recorded by Alexander Woollcott.
From Henrik Ibsen A Bibliography of Criticism and Biography with an Index to Characters by Firkins, Ina Ten Eyck
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