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
Alexander Woollcott, another Algonquin Round Table regular, and typically one of its nastier ones, was out of the country when it opened.
From New York Times • May 11, 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
Woollcott knew her through Berlin, whose worshipful biography he had written.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 16, 2015
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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