The Algonquin Wits: Aleck Woollcott and Charles MacArthur Take a Vacation

Aleck Woollcott and playwright Charles MacArthur once took a voyage to Europe together. After their ship had been two days at sea, MacArthur emerged onto the deck to join Aleck, confiding to him, ‘I can’t get over the feeling that I’m on a boat.’”

Excerpted from: Drennan, Robert E., ed. The Algonquin Wits. New York: Kensington, 1985.

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