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Town Crier Woollcott lives in the same apartment house as the Ralph Pulitzers and Alice Duer Miller at the foot of East 52nd Street, overlooking the East River. Dorothy Parker named the place "Wit's End." He lives in Sybaritic ease, attended by a youthful Negro servant named Junior. When he writes at home, he customarily dictates to a male secretary. Breakfast or cocktail guests are likely to include the Ben Hechts, Charles MacArthurs, Neysa McMein, Harpo Marx, Noel Coward, Herbert Bayard Swope. With Editor Harold Ross he maintains a perpetual Potash & Perlmutter squabble, which last week came...
...life, "It's just neutral." Yet she certainly fits no stereotyped category as a producer of literary lumber. A charming, friendly, incredibly busy woman, she is a concocter of treacly yarns, a romantic who laps up travel literature (Arctic exploration, mountain climbing), a sophisticated and often rampageous wit and practical joker, an amateur actress of talent, a deadly croquet player, a dynamo of energy that can leap from typewriter to cooking pot to evening dress and back again, a wife, a mother, a chatelaine, all in one highly individual bundle...
Music Hath Charms (score by Rudolf Friml; Libretto by Rowland Leigh, George Rosener, John Shubert; Shuberts, producers). In operatic circles, Maria Jeritza has always been as famed for her business acumen as for her wit and charm. She had the good sense to duck out of Music Hath Charms before that mossy opus reached Manhattan...
...only an accomplished singer but a talented comedian. Nonetheless, it is neither Crooner Crosby nor his songs ("Love Is Just Around the Corner," "It's June in January," "With Every Breath I Take") that make Here Is My Heart such agreeable entertainment. Aimed at intelligent audiences, written with wit, directed with a proper sense of style by Frank Tuttle, it has the immense advantage of having such performers as Roland Young, Alison Skipworth and Reginald Owen in subsidiary roles. As bedazzled, picayune Prince Nickolas, Young reveals, in urbane monosyllables, his scheme for crooked trading in used cars to replenish...
...friendly accord. There were conferences, teas, trips through the 4,500,000 fingerprint library at the Department of Justice, visits to its criminal laboratories. No small part in helping effect an entente cordiale was performed by Hostess Cecilia Waterbury Cummings, a lively brunette with gracious ways and a glib wit...