One of Americas & mine greatest favorite ranconteur was born today - 1887 - Alexander Woollcott, born in Phalanx, New Jersey. He reviewed plays for The New York Times until the First World War. The tyrannical Sheridan Whiteside in Kaufman and Hart's play The Man Who Came to Dinner (1939) was modeled on Woollcott. "There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day. "-AWolcott
Thank you Mr Poe: Excerpt from The Raven -Pub 1845 - Still haunting, evermore...
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
" 'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door;
Only this, and nothing more."
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