Woollcott

Everyone who was anyone in the 1930s -- from Gandhi to Cary Grant -- is a fan of Whiteside, modeled on critic Alexander Woollcott.

Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Chinglish, The Man Who Came To Dinner Fern Siegel 2011

If you enjoy reading about the theatre in the first half of the 20th century you will find Woollcott hugely entertaining.

St Berthold's Feast Day. . . . John 2009

Everyone who was anyone in the 1930s -- from Gandhi to Cary Grant -- is a fan of Whiteside, modeled on critic Alexander Woollcott.

Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Chinglish, The Man Who Came To Dinner Fern Siegel 2011

Everyone who was anyone in the 1930s -- from Gandhi to Cary Grant -- is a fan of Whiteside, modeled on critic Alexander Woollcott.

Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Chinglish, The Man Who Came To Dinner Fern Siegel 2011

If you enjoy reading about the theatre in the first half of the 20th century you will find Woollcott hugely entertaining.

The Inn is still in business John 2009

Everyone who was anyone in the 1930s -- from Gandhi to Cary Grant -- is a fan of Whiteside, modeled on critic Alexander Woollcott.

Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Chinglish, The Man Who Came To Dinner Fern Siegel 2011

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.”

Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2008 » January 2008

The Man Who Came to Dinner is about Alexander Woollcott — the central character in the show is supposed to be him.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2008 » January 2008

The play has been revived several times, the most recent version featuring Nathan Lane in the Woollcott role.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2008 » January 2008

Agonizing over how to put down his ailing cat, Alexander Woollcott consulted Dorothy Parker.

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