While Rome Burns
#1 bestseller for nonfiction in 1934. From Harpo Marx to murder, by a topper of the Algonquin Round Table. Included are his review of O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra," musings on his trip to Russia in the early 1930s, a view of the theatre in Peking (Beijing) and thoughts on Lillian Gish, Damon Runyon. A combo of '30s whimsy and acerbity.
- Author
- Alexander Woollcott
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 328
- Publisher
- Amereon House
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780891901488
- Genres
- essays, criticism, crime, history
- Release date
- 1999
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