Shouts and Murmurs: Echoes of a Thousand and One First Nights
Professor Alexander Woollcott
Shouts and Murmurs: Echoes of a Thousand and One First Nights
Professor Alexander Woollcott
- The Algonquin Round Table was an informal group of famous New York writers who lunched together at the Algonquin Hotel in the 1920s and ‘30s. The self-appointed leader of the group was Alexander Woollcott. A large, stout man, he was an author, critic and actor noted for his sharp, cruel wit. Contents: Behind the Scenes; The Knock at the Stage-door; Gunpowder Plots; Capsule Criticism; For the Kiddies; Bitter Memories; The Terrible Translation; Another Foreign Author; The Celebrated Decline of the Drama; Presenting Fogg’s Ferry; Eugene O'Neill; Deburau, Pere, and Guitry, Fils; The Legend of Peter Pan; It Was Trilby; Palmy Days; Mr. Tinney; The Chauve-Souris; Zowie; or, The Curse of an Akins Heart.
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