Channing Pollock

(1880 - 1946)

Channing Pollock began his career in 1898 as a drama critic for the Washington Post and later worked as a stage manager and press agent before turning to playwriting. In a March 1931 review of one of his plays, Dorothy Parker wrote, “It is difficult to do anything about Mr. Pollock, for say what one will—and one has—about his works, people attend them by the drove. I don’t know what people they are, but there are enough of them to cram a theater for months and to make Mr. Pollock the happiest and proudest of authors. So there is little to accomplish by railing. I may mutter only that The House Beautiful is, for me, the play lousy.”