Channing Pollock, American playwright and critic (d. 1946)
Channing Pollock (March 4, 1880 – August 17, 1946) was an American playwright, critic and screenwriter, whose works included The Evil Thereof (1916) and the memoir The Footlights, Fore and Aft (1911). Pollock is perhaps best remembered in connection with a review of one of his later plays, in which Dorothy Parker famously wrote "'The House Beautiful' is the play lousy."Pollock began his career in 1896 as the dramatic critic at The Washington Post, and later worked at the Washington Times.
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