Scope and Contents Shouts and Murmurs was the personal column of Alexander Woollcott in the New Yorker magazine. Beginning in 1929, Woollcott’s Shouts appeared weekly for five years, usually in the middle of the magazine (roughly where the current column runs) and almost always a single page in length.Woollcott used his column to opine on, lampoon, and attack the culture and society of the day. In his distinct and at times excessive style, he reviewed books, wrote spoofs, distributed gossip, and...

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Mounted undated illustration clippings. Most are theatre-related although there can also be found a small amount related to ballet, the circus, music, and opera.