American theater critic, humorist and editor (1902–1958)
For the chemist, see Oliver Wolcott Gibbs.
Wolcott Gibbs
Born
Oliver Wolcott Gibbs
(1902-03-15)March 15, 1902
New York City, U.S.
Died
August 16, 1958(1958-08-16) (aged 56)
Ocean Beach, New York, U.S.
Occupation(s)
Editor, critic, playwright, author
Spouses
Helen Marguerite Galpin
(m. 1926, divorced)
Elizabeth Ada Crawford
(m. 1929; died 1930)
Elinor Mead Sherwin
(m. 1933)
Wolcott Gibbs (March 15, 1902 – August 16, 1958) was an American editor, humorist, theatre critic, playwright and writer of short stories, who worked for The New Yorker magazine from 1927 until his death. He is notable for his 1936 parody of Time magazine, which skewered the magazine's inverted narrative structure. Gibbs wrote, "Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind"; he concluded the piece, "Where it all will end, knows God!" He also wrote a comedy, Season in the Sun, which ran on Broadway for 10 months in 1950–51 and was based on a series of stories that originally appeared in The New Yorker.
He was a friend and frequent editor of John O'Hara, who named his fictional town of "Gibbsville, Pa." for him.[citation needed]
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of Harold Ross, the founding editor of The New Yorker, in the 1950 WolcottGibbs comedy Season in the Sun. Ross appeared in 20th Century Fox films including...
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particularly the idea of Donald Duck lusting towards flesh-and-blood women. As WolcottGibbs put it in a negative review of the film for The New Yorker, such a concept...
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tooth.'" Reviewing the original Broadway production of Guys and Dolls, WolcottGibbs wrote in The New Yorker that "More I Cannot Wish You" is "one of the...
Henry Fonda, actor, built a summer home in the Pines.[citation needed] WolcottGibbs, theater critic of The New Yorker Samuel Adams Green, art dealer Joseph...
distinctive writing style was often the subject of parody. In 1949, WolcottGibbs of The New Yorker imagined a Peglerian tirade to a little girl asking...
and extraordinarily welcomed ... meritorious in every department." WolcottGibbs, The New Yorker. "One of the 'loverliest' shows imaginable ... a work...
a Bachelor of Arts. While at City College, he learned under Oliver WolcottGibbs. He tutored mathematics at the Trinity Latin School in New York City...
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married Hamilton Emmons. American editor, literary critic, and playwright WolcottGibbs was the great-great-grandson of Martin Van Buren through his son John...
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