Agonizing over how to put down his ailing cat, Alexander Woollcott consulted Dorothy Parker. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
Harpo's two adopted sons, William Bill Woollcott Marx and Alexander Marx, are named after Woollcott. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-07] Reference
The play has been revived several times, the most recent version featuring Nathan Lane in the Woollcott role. From Wordnik.com. [Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2008 » January] Reference
The Man Who Came to Dinner is about Alexander Woollcott — the central character in the show is supposed to be him. From Wordnik.com. [Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2008 » January] Reference
If you enjoy reading about the theatre in the first half of the 20th century you will find Woollcott hugely entertaining. From Wordnik.com. [The Inn is still in business] Reference
Harpo Marx, a member of the Roundtable almost from the beginning, called it “the last gathering of the Woollcott crowd, and it was our strangest gathering.”. From Wordnik.com. [Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2008 » January] Reference
He claimed to be the inspiration for Rex Stout's brilliant detective Nero Wolfe, but Stout, although he was friendly to Woollcott, said there was nothing to this idea. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-07] Reference
What caught and held me, though, was an episode in the 1930s, when Wilson, fresh from reporting on the labor front for The New Republic, was invited to call on Woollcott at Sutton Place. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Companion] Reference
Recollections of Woollcott the man of the theater, intercut with reflections on the arcana of the American left, combine to make a fine profile and a nice period piece: journalism at its best. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Companion] Reference
Virginia, who may have been present that night–she describes similar evenings to Teresa–recalls the additional presence of Alexander Woollcott, the man who helped put the Marx Brothers on the map. From Wordnik.com. [Chaplin’s Girl] Reference
(If you're intersted in reading the whole thread, it's at www. talkinbroadway.com/allthatchat) There are many such stories, and they date back at least to the days when the Shuberts attempted to bar Alexander Woollcott, then the Times critic, from their productions. From Wordnik.com. [Threats, we get threats] Reference
Alexander Woollcott, in the New York Times, called the play "gorgeously entertaining," and drama critic Burns Mantle named "The Old Soak" one of the top 10 productions of the 1922-23 season and published an abridged version of the story in his popular theater annual. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Soak] Reference
The sadness, though, comes not in the tales of break-up and fighting and wars over various novels, poems, and screenplays Our Constant Reader, Ms. Parker, called The Man Who Came to Dinner “a nasty little play”—not seeing the humor because of her affection for Woollcott, but in that last, impromptu meeting of the roundtable. From Wordnik.com. [Kristine Kathryn Rusch » The Top Ten Literary Anecdotes] Reference
The sadness, though, comes not in the tales of break-up and fighting and wars over various novels, poems, and screenplays (Our Constant Reader, Ms. Parker, called The Man Who Came to Dinner “a nasty little play” — not seeing the humor because of her affection for Woollcott), but in that last, impromptu meeting of the roundtable. From Wordnik.com. [Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2008 » January] Reference
Woollcott had a photo in his bathroom of himself reading on the toilet, with the caption. From Wordnik.com. [The Spark of Yahoo!] Reference
Here's what Woollcott wrote in the source you yourself cited, the foreword to Chesterton's. From Wordnik.com. [CathNews] Reference
In Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, edited by Malcolm Cowley (1958); UJE; Woollcott, Alexander. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy Rothschild Parker.] Reference
Woollcott says he has never forgotten the beauty of the Hamilton College campus "overlooking the valley of Oriskany.". From Wordnik.com. [The Observer-Dispatch Home RSS] Reference
You can't read about Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, and George S. Kaufman without running into Alexander Woollcott. From Wordnik.com. [The Inn is still in business] Reference
The Round Table started as a luncheon held at the Algonquin Hotel by two theatrical agents to welcome The New York Times drama critic Alexander Woollcott back from World War I. From Wordnik.com. [Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2008 » January] Reference
‘It was all about Aleck Woollcott, whom I’d met when he used to stay at Harpo’s place. From Wordnik.com. [Chaplin’s Girl] Reference
This is an idea founded on the success of such books as Alexander Woollcott’s “While Rome Burns.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Life in Letters] Reference
Woollcott actually tried to discuss his experiences with the 35 members of New York’s theater community who attended the lunch, but they laughed him off, figuring nothing serious could have happened to the man. From Wordnik.com. [Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2008 » January] Reference
I haven’t seen Woollcott’s book (by the way, did he get a copy of the novel?) and don’t know how thick it is, but there seems to be some audience somewhere for collections (Dorothy Parker, etc.) as didn’t exist in the 1920s. From Wordnik.com. [A Life in Letters] Reference
Well, I’m going to live out a personal fantasy for a moment and pretend that it’s still the Golden Age of Critics: Mencken, Parker, Woollcott, Wilson — witty gatekeepers of culture who said what they thought without fear of the backlash of the booboisie or the demagogy of the Internet. From Wordnik.com. [Understanding the General Audience : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference
—Alexander Woollcott 1887–1943. From Wordnik.com. [The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said] Reference
But I had never actually read any of Woollcott. From Wordnik.com. [The Inn is still in business] Reference
Scr.Mar. (67: 316.) #Woollcott, Alexander. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
Woollcott, Katharine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier, Uta Hagen, Montgomery Clift, Julie Harris, and on and on) The 2009 Lunt-Fontanne Fellows: • Suzanne Bouchard nominated by Seattle Repertory. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Socially responsible art? It doesn't have to send you to sleep] Reference
While Rome Burns Woollcott, 261. From Wordnik.com. [A Life in Letters] Reference
No Alexander Woollcott. From Wordnik.com. [Vocations] Reference
Woollcott, Alexander, 261, 361. From Wordnik.com. [A Life in Letters] Reference
Woollcott, Alexander, 2,231, 2,372, 2,544. From Wordnik.com. [The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said] Reference
The very idea that the obese and overly sensitive Mr. Woollcott actually served in such a nasty war adds a depth to his character few ever write about — and it wasn’t in evidence that afternoon in 1919. From Wordnik.com. [Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2008 » January] Reference
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