Mr. Woollcott's facts and elaborations on: Oliver Wendell Holmes; George Bernard Shaw; Orson Wells; George Gershwin; Fountain Inn Tribune; bizzarrre details of the Hall-Mills, and Snyder-Gray kings; Harpo Marx's musical education; H.G. Wells; Emily Bronte; and many others, from on the great literary wits of the 20th century. "Being a bird's eye view of the people, the institutions, the facts, and fancies that attracted the attention and sympathy of Alexander Woollcott in the past ten years." Alexander Woollcott -1887-1943, American author and critic. His flamboyant personality and sharpness of wit together with his journalistic skill, and renowed reputation as a member of the Algonquin Round Table; made him one of the best-known journalists of his time. Drama critic from 1914 to 1922 for the New York Times and later, from 1925 to 1928, for the New York World. He also had a weekly radio show, the Town Crier (1929-42). 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. This book is one his popular gossipy essays on literary, theatrical and other well known people; Orson Wells, George Gershwin; Harpo Marx; H.G. Wells; George Bernard Shaw, etc. These anecdotes of his friends, personalities and events are a prime example of Woollcotts sharp wit and keene literary style. Red cloth boards, blind stamped profile of Woollcott to front board. DW not price clipped, red, white and gray. Chips to head and heel of spine, mild soil, closed tear to spine edge, crease to lower edge. Few underlinings in pencil, erased. Page 177 closed edge tear. All else clean, tightly bound. In mylar. First Edition. 8vo, 278 pp

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