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Channing Pollock

(1880-1946)

1925The Enemy. This antiwar morality play depicts the devastating impact of World War I on an Austrian family. Pollock was a drama critic and publicist for the Ziegfelds, whose many plays include Clothes (1906) and The Fool (1922).
1931The House Beautiful. Pollock's final play is a preachy allegory on the idealism of a young married couple living in the suburbs. It prompts a classic, pithy review by Dorothy Parker: "The House Beautiful is the play lousy."

 
 
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"No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things."

"Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments."

"The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck."

"Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed."

"No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut."

"A critic is a legless man who teaches running."

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Works. The Chronology of American Literature, edited by Daniel S. Burt. Copyright © 2004 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
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