Photo taken of Alexander Woollcott drinking coffee and holding a cigarette. Woollcott (spelled double o, double l, double t, and double chin) is shown giving interviewers a test on acting. He asked what actress drank coffee like this. They couldn't guess. "Elizabeth Bergner," he said. "Posterity will remember you for your failure to recognize a great artist." Photo dated: December 7, 1939.
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