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	Alexander Woollcott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexander Humphreys Woollcott (January 19, 1887 – January 23, 1943) was a critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine, and a member of the Algonquin Round Table.
		Woollcott graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, and is fondly remembered there.
		Towards the end of Woollcott's life he semi-retired to an island he had purchased on Lake Bomoseen in Vermont.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Woollcott (396 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Alexander Woollcott - The Man Who Came to Dinner - A662230
		Woollcott was born in an eighty-five room house, a vast ramshackle building that had once been a commune.
		Woollcott worked for a few years as a reporter, covering such things as the sinking of the Titanic, and then got the post he coveted: drama critic.
		Woollcott, being ever aware that he was a character in public and private, managed to make an exit from this life worthy of any actor.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A662230 (2814 words)

	AllRefer.com - Alexander Woollcott (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Alexander Woollcott 1887–1943, American author and critic, b.
		Woollcott's flamboyant personality combined sharpness of wit with sentimentality.
		Woollcott was the model for Sheridan Whiteside, the central character in The Man Who Came to Dinner, a play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart; he portrayed Whiteside in a road company production of the play.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Woollcot.html (248 words)

	ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Alexander Humphreys Woollcott (January_19, 1887 - January_23, 1943) was a critic and commentator for ''The_New_Yorker magazine'', and a member of the Algonquin_Round_Table.
		Wolcott_Gibbs, who often edited Woollcott's work at ''The New Yorker'', was quoted in Thurber's book ''The Years with Ross'' as saying: "'Shouts and Murmurs' was about the strangest copy I ever edited.
		Woollcott graduated from Hamilton_College in Clinton, New York, and is fondly remembered there.
	www.palfacts.com /Alexander_Woollcott (343 words)

	Alexander Woollcott biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Alexander Woollcott (January 19, 1887 - January 23, 1942) was a critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine, and a member of the Algonquin Round Table.
		Woollcott never married or had children, although he had a large number of female friends.
		He died in New York while participating in a 1942 radio program on the war in Europe, one of the celebrated few in broadcast media to die live "on the air".
	alexander-woollcott.biography.ms (211 words)

	Woollcott, Alexander -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Covers Alexander's reign, the battles of Granicus and Issus, the end of the Persian Empire, and Phillip II of Macedonia.
		Alexander the Great was able to conquer a large area in a remarkably short period of time.
		After Alexander's death, there were endless disputes between his heirs that eventually led to the complete destruction of the family.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9077443 (791 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Alexander Woollcott - The Man Who Came to Dinner - A670079
		Woollcott was born in an 85 room house, a vast ramshackle building that had once been a commune.
		The Bucklins and Woollcotts were avid readers, defining in young Aleck a lifelong love of literature, especially the works of Charles Dickens.
		As a friend said, after Woollcott's death, 'If I were in trouble, and Aleck Woollcott was still alive, he'd be the first one I would go to'.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A670079 (2824 words)

	Stage on Screen - The Man Who Came to Dinner
		Woollcott, an outsized and extravagant egoist, and the most feared critic in New York City, had refused to write a story about the young Eugene O'Neill, one of Toohey's clients.
		Woollcott's name was purposely misspelled on the invitations and everyone did their best to humiliate him during lunch.
		Woollcott was the social and emotional center of the group.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/stageonscreen/tmwctd/circle.html (540 words)

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		Alexander faced the feared Tony Lazzeri and struck him out, ending the inning to the cheers of the crowd.
		Alexander walked quickly to the horse’s head and turned it to face into the sun, for he had noticed that the horse’s own shadow was upsetting it.
		While the medicine was being prepared, Alexander received a letter from an enemy of Philip’s that accused the physician of having been bribed by the Persian king to poison his master.
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	The Great Radio Hoax of 1935
		“Woollcott considered that Woolcott was the hub the world revolved around,” wrote his closest friend Harpo Marx, “If he wasn’t the center of attraction he was miserable, and when he was miserable, somebody caught hell.
		She described the old woman’s reactions as Woollcott spoke out to her: “I wish you could have seen [We’ve heard that line before] her little wasted face when you called her your sister.
		Whatever the case, Woollcott should have realized something was amiss long before he actually did.
	www.davidpietrusza.com /great-radio-hoax.html (980 words)

	Hamilton, Alexander -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		One of the youngest and brightest of the founders of the United States, Alexander Hamilton favored strong central government.
		Lincoln Alexander became the first African American to hold a vice-regal office in Canada when he was installed as the 24th lieutenant governor of Ontario in 1985.
		Stephens, Alexander H. Second only to Jefferson Davis among the statesmen of the Confederate States of America, Alexander Stephens served as vice-president of the Confederacy.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9039033?tocId=9039033 (864 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Screw the Algonquin
		The video, which features literary raconteurs Robert Benchley, Donald Ogden Stewart, and Alexander Woollcott, takes us back to the twenties, when Manhattan’s grip on popular culture was even more powerful than it is now, and the common people were quite willing to be entertained and even dictated to by their betters.
		Benchley, Stewart, and Woollcott were well-known writers for newspapers and magazines in New York during the twenties, and had college degrees when the average American scarcely made it out of junior high.
		Woollcott liked the play so much that he took over the lead role of Sheridan Whitside.
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		Thus in two generations history repeated itself, for Alexander’s grandmother, Catherine the Great, had connived at the murder of her husband, Peter III, in order to seize power herself less than forty years before.
		Alexander dropped in a handful of gold and whispered, "That’s for your beautiful bright eyes." The young lady curtsied and immediately presented the plate again.
		Alexander anticipated his plea: "I swear by the Styx I will not grant your request," he said.
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	Jane Grant:Ablaze with Adventure and Verve:Gallery II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Alexander Woollcott, drama critic, friend, colleague, and housemate of Jane Grant and Harold Ross, from the window of Grant and Ross's apartment at 412 W. 47th Street in New York city.
		Alexander Woollcott, in the hospital in 1923, told friends he was having a baby, so they sent him this cartoon of congratulations.
		An unpublished skit that spoofed the poker games of the Thanatopsis Pleasure and Inside Straight Club, of which Harold Ross, Alexander Woollcott, Franklin P. Adams, and others of the Algonquin Round Table Crowd were members.
	libweb.uoregon.edu /speccoll/exhibits/JaneGrant/ablaze/gallery2.html (509 words)

	Moviefone: Movie Celebrities - Alexander Woollcott: MAIN
		Alexander Woollcott, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1939 · Enlarge.
		Plump, owl-faced, acid-tongued Alexander Woollcott, one of the highest-paid critics in...
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	The Eugene O'Neill Newsletter
		While he admits that Woollcott was "not a critic in any but a rather general sense of the term" (being an "ardent dilettante" rather than a "profound theorist"), Burns shows how much Woollcott's views reflect the theatre of his day and how witty the reflection can frequently be.
		Such a passage reveals the Woollcott gifts at their best: a willingness to bend his established views if theatrical impact justified it, and an infectious enthusiasm for all of theatre--nonverbal elements as much as text--and delight in writing about it.
		While popular biographies of Woollcott offer a deeper, rounder portrait of the man, The Dramatic Criticism of Alexander Woollcott is a splendid overview of that portrait's most important ingredient.
	www.eoneill.com /library/newsletter/v_1/v-1g.htm (2503 words)

	Alexander Woollcott "Miss Kitty Takes to the Road"
		By 1922, acid-tongued Alexander Woollcott (1887-1943) was one of the highest-paid critics in America, producing thousands of theater reviews, hundreds of magazine essays, and fifteen books.
		Woollcott was the model for Sheridan Whiteside, the central character in The Man Who Came to Dinner, a play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.
		TheScreamOnline recognizes Woollcott as having produced some of the most enjoyable reading ever to be seen when it comes to theater reviews and cultural commentary.
	www.thescreamonline.com /essays/essays2-3/woollcott.html (4542 words)

	Alexander the Great quotes & quotations
		"Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.
		"When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity.
		"Some talk of Alexander, and some of Hercules; / Of Hector and Lysander, and such great names as these; / But of all the world's brave heroes, there's none that can compare / With the tow, row, row, row, row, row, for the British Grenadier.
	en.thinkexist.com /quotes/with/keyword/alexander_the_great (357 words)

	Assessment (from Hamilton, Alexander) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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		As the nation's first secretary of the treasury he established responsible financial policies that helped the country prosper.
		The Scottish physician and diarist Alexander Hamilton recorded revealing observations of life in colonial America in the mid-18th century.
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	caricatures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Plump, owl-faced, acid-tongued Alexander Woollcott, one of the highest-paid critics in America by 1922, invited mockery just as he delivered it.
		He produced thousands of theater reviews, hundreds of magazine essays, and fifteen books, and his vituperative streak added a sharp sting to Algonquin humor.
		Woollcott used this cryptic rendering by William Auerbach-Levy as a personal trademark, imprinting it on stationery, announcements, and book covers.
	www.npg.si.edu /exh/caricatures/wool.htm (117 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Theater Review: Talk of the Town
		With book, music and lyrics by Ginny Redington and Tom Dawes, the show looks at the lives of Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, Edna Ferber, George S. Kaufman, and other denizens of the 1920's New York literary world.
		These figures, along with their cohorts, would meet for lunch at the Algonquin Hotel and, along with talking about the various issues of the day, would dispense rapier wit and caustic comments, ("is there anything rarer than a first edition of an Alexander Woollcott novel?" "Yes, a second edition of an Alexander Woollcott novel").
		Just as important, the characters are presented fully formed and three-dimensional, allowing the audience to feel their joys and pains, such as the frustration of writer's block, feeling unappreciated by your writing partner, the pain of unrequited love, trying to drown your sorrows in alcohol or having a marriage proposal turned down.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/4-12-1/24624.html (559 words)

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		A story he heard from a friend of a friend about a young English doctor who was in Kent visiting a man who had unfortunately inherited a crumbly old manor house.
		Moonlight Sonata is from Woollcott's "While Rome Burns", a collection of stories and personal reminiscences.
		This was originally published in a collection of Bierce's ghost stories called, "Can Such Things Be?" It's been said that Ambrose Bierce became especially interested in the mysterious after reading about a supposedly true tale that was reported in an Alabama newspaper in 1854.
	www.jmu.edu /wmra/darkness.html (599 words)

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		"All the things I like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening." Alexander Woollcott was by the 1920s the highest paid film critic.
		This now infamous group of people began when wartime friends Franklin P. Adams, Harold Ross, Heywood Broun, and Alexander Woollcott began meeting for daily lunches at the Algonquin Hotel.
		During a radio show (a round table discussion with four others on Hitlerism), Woollcott suffered a heart attack at 7:15 p.m.
	www.stephenlongstreet.com /hw_awoolcott.htm (88 words)

	Amazon.co.uk - Query Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		While Rome Burns [Paperback] by Woollcott, Alexander; Morle...
		Alexander Woollcott: His Life and His World (Select Bibliogr...
		Woollcott, Alexander: The Woollcott Reader Bypaths in the Re...
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	Alibris: Alexander Woollcott
		by Walker, Stanley, and Woollcott, Alexander, Professor (Foreword by)
		New York City in the 1920s and 1930s was a great newspaper town, and few people knew the exciting world of breaking stories and five-star finals as intimately as Stanley Walker.
		The Woollcott reader; bypaths in the realms of gold.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Alexander_Woollcott (365 words)

	Quote Details: Alexander Woollcott: The scenery in the... - The Quotations Page
		Quote Details: Alexander Woollcott: The scenery in the...
		The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.
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		Alexander Woollcott Long, Long Ago HC DJ 1945
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	Hoyt (1973) Alexander Woollcott: the man who came to dinner
		Hoyt (1973) Alexander Woollcott: the man who came to dinner
		Alexander Woollcott: the man who came to dinner
		To view the the latter's ratings, click on Chapters/Papers/Articles in the STATISTICS box, select a publication from the list that appears, and then click on either Quality or Interest in that publication's STATISTICS box.
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	The A.E.F. in Cartoon - Publisher's presentation copy to Wally &...
		The A.E.F. in Cartoon - Publisher's presentation copy to Wally & Alexander Woollcott - [offered with] Happy Days Cartoons of the C.C.C. [Abian A. Wallgren] Wally, Grant Powers, Ray Evans, et al.
		"Wally" and Alexander Woollcott, who wrote the introduction, with two inscriptions: "Here's to Wally- a much maligned, libeled and beloved buddy -- and, -- so-o-o-o-o-o -- the first million in circulation may be the hardest for us guys - but we're prayerfully hopeful your royalties will reach $100,000,000,000 and ad infinitum.
		Lil' Dan'l Sowers 3/2/33" [and] "AW [A. Woollcott] To Florence - Beaucoup thanks for the "tummy fillings" which are helping keep down affects of the depression.
	www.bookgarden.com /books/133277.html (379 words)

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