Channing Pollock (writer)

Channing Pollock
Born4 March 1880 Edit this on Wikidata
Washington, D.C. Edit this on Wikidata
Died17 August 1946 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 66)
Shoreham Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationScreenwriter, composer, critic Edit this on Wikidata
Channing Pollock, photo by Carl Van Vechten (April 27, 1934)

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."[1]

Pollock began his career in 1896 as the dramatic critic at The Washington Post, and later worked at the Washington Times.[2]

  1. ^ Kerr, Walter (September 26, 1982). "If The Play Is Bad, The Review Is Hard Work". The New York Times.
  2. ^ The Footlights, Fore and Aft by Channing Pollock, Gorham Press, New York, New York (1911), page