Channing Pollock, photo by Carl Van Vechten (April 27, 1934)
Channing Pollock (March 4, 1880 – August 17, 1946) was an American playwright, critic and writer of film scenarios, including The Evil Thereof (1916) and the memoir The Footlights, Fore and Aft (1911). Pollock is perhaps best remembered in connection with a review of one of his later plays, in which Dorothy Parker famously wrote “‘The House Beautiful' is the play lousy.”
Pollock began his career in 1896 as the dramatic critic at The Washington Post later working at the Washington Times.