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January 20, 1940

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IT'S DE-LOVELY!

Russell Maloney

PROFILE of Monty (Edgar Montillion) Woolley, now playing in "The Man Who Came To Dinner." Woolley was born in 1888, in the old Hotel Bristol, which stood …