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Supreme production on Justice Holmes Author dares to ask key question.(Arts)(Theater)
From: The Washington Times
Date: 19960324
Author:Pressley, Nelson
Paul D'Andrea's "The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay" explores the influential legal thinking and long romantic union of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and his wife, Fanny Bowditch Dixwell.
If it sounds like we've just been there and done that with Ford's Theatre's revival of Emmet Lavery's 1946 "The Magnificent Yankee" last month, think again. The kindly but doddering "Yankee" celebrated the charming, curmudgeonly side of Holmes at the expense of exploring the Great Dissenter's legacy.
Mr. D'Andrea, on the other hand, has ideas on his mind, and he asks the ...
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