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...contradictions in a single evening. In Henry IV, Part I, he was the stuttering, heroic Hotspur; in Part II, the cagey-senile Justice Shallow. The curtain would fall on his Oedipus, with its searing scream of self-revelation; after intermission he would mince on as Mr. Puff, the giddy paragraphist of Sheridan's The Critic. It was all part of a 70-year striptease in which this consummate quick-change artist always had one more veil to remove, and proof of what director Peter Glenville called Olivier's "greed for achievement...
...Memoriam. In Chester, S.C., J. Foster Carter, happy that the U.S. at last contained a monument to Adam to match Paragraphist Robert Quillan's Fountain Inn, S.C., memorial to Eve, looked upon the adornment to his front yard, said that it was good...
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