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The precedent for this was set back in 1915 when the Shubert brothers banned New York Times critic Alexander Woollcott from their venues, a right that was ultimately upheld in court.
Leonard Jacobs: Ensnaring Theatre Critics in the Spider-Man Web Leonard Jacobs 2011
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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
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The precedent for this was set back in 1915 when the Shubert brothers banned New York Times critic Alexander Woollcott from their venues, a right that was ultimately upheld in court.
Leonard Jacobs: Ensnaring Theatre Critics in the Spider-Man Web Leonard Jacobs 2011
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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
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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
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Then there is Alexander Woollcott's macabre "Moonlight Sonata" 1931, a story I knew from my sister-in-law, the novelist Elspeth Barker.
The Case of the Missing Adventure Story Allan Massie 2011
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The precedent for this was set back in 1915 when the Shubert brothers banned New York Times critic Alexander Woollcott from their venues, a right that was ultimately upheld in court.
Leonard Jacobs: Ensnaring Theatre Critics in the Spider-Man Web Leonard Jacobs 2011
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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
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When I heard that Mr. Gurney's latest play was a backstage fantasy about a youthful encounter with Katharine Cornell, I figured it would be one of his lesser efforts, a slightly sticky valentine to the actress whom Alexander Woollcott dubbed "the First Lady of the Theater."
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New Yorker (July 14, 1928): 59 – 62; The Letters of Alexander Woollcott, edited with Joseph Hennessey (1944); “The Phone Call.”
Beatrice Kaufman. 2009
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