Monty Woolley will play his original role of Sheridan Whiteside in the Dramatic Club's February production of "The Man Who Came to Dinner," HDC officials announced last night.

Signing of the veteran stage and screen star was completed in New York yesterday afternoon by Robert E. Miller '48, HDC president, and Peter Davis-Dibblo '48, business manager. Woolley will open in a limited ten-day engagement starting February 24 at the Rindge Tech Theater.

Woolley's performance will be his first East Coast stage appearance since the 1939 New York production of "The Man Who Came to Dinner." He will be supported by University students in the male roles and also by actresses from the Greater Boston area.

No newcomer to Ivy League activities, Woolley served as a faculty member at Yale before turning to acting and the manufacture of quotable quotes. The fur-chinned actor relived some of his earlier days in one of the Hollywood "great composers series" epics, "Night and Day."