Channing Pollock | |
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| Born | 4 March 1880  Washington, D.C. |
| Died | 17 August 1946 (aged 66) Shoreham |
| Occupation | Screenwriter, composer, critic |
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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]
- ^ Kerr, Walter (September 26, 1982). "If The Play Is Bad, The Review Is Hard Work". The New York Times.
- ^ The Footlights, Fore and Aft by Channing Pollock, Gorham Press, New York, New York (1911), page