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Show FORMER DRAMATIC j EDITOR DOING "BIT' ' Alexander Woollcott of New Yorkl3 I Working in a War Hospital in Fiance. J By ERNEST P. OEE, j International News Service Staff ! Correspondent. ! PARIS. Dec. . There was a tap at . the door of the doctor's room. A figure clad in the uniform of a private pri-vate of the medical unit, wearing wear-ing thick eyeglasses and carrying a pall and broom, pushed open the door, touching touch-ing the brim of lus campaign hat in a salute. "I've come to clean up the room, sir," the figure announced. The doctor looked at him curiously for a moment and then gasped, "Good Lord: If only Mrs. Fiske could see you now!" The private was Alexander Woollcott. formerly dramatic editor and critic of a Xew York daily (Times). He enlisted in the medical corps after having- been rejecter! re-jecter! for the regular army and is now stationed at a large hospital near one of , the American naval bases in France. The doctor, an intimate friend of President Presi-dent Wilson, and one of the many who ; have sacrificed large and remunerative i practices to coma to France, knew Wooll-j Wooll-j cott well and had often met him at the ; Lotos club in Xew York. He also knew i that tlie patriotic critic was a great friend i of Mrs. Kiske. j "Despite the line drawn between officers of-ficers and enlisted men I couldn't help , talking to him," admitted the doctor. "We j have taken many long walks at the base I and discussed the drama from the latest ! Xew York successes to the world tragedy j unfolding itself before us." |