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In the end, `Yankee' does Holmes justice
From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19950824
Author:Richard Dyer, Globe Staff
THE MAGNIFICENT YANKEE
Play in three acts by Emmett Lavery
Directed by Peter Hunt. Sets, Hugh Landwehr. Costumes,
Noel Taylor. Lights, Rui Rita. Sound, Chuck Hatcher.
Presented by the Williamstown Theatre Festival
At: Adams Memorial Theatre, Williams College, through
Aug. 27
WILLIAMSTOWN -- "The Magnificent Yankee" is "Life with Father" with law clerks substituting for children.
In 1946, Emmett Lavery's play about Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was a modest Broadway success, running up 160 performances with Louis Calhern playing the role of the Massachusetts jurist who ...
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