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MARK TWAIN TONIGHT! As Actor Hal Holbrook brings the man from Hannibal, Mo., back to life in a one-man show, he seems a snow-thatched Jove who has laid aside punitive thunderbolts for lightning strokes of irony and mirth. The format is that of Twain's turn-of-the-century lectures; the wry humor is of the moment...
...writings. The casual format is that of one of Twain's turn-of-the-century lectures when he was 70. The props are simple: a lectern, a Victorian chair, a pitcher of water, an omnipresent cigar from which Holbrook fires volleys of smoke like a snow-thatched Jove who has laid aside his thunderbolts for cheroots...
...working as much as nine hours a day, polishing his technique and repertory. The discipline took. Into his fingers he poured his long-suffocated musical genius; it began to open like a long-forgotten well. And then, he says, "It was like that line in My Fair Lady: 'By Jove, he's got it!' I became a pianist...
...Jove!" Boston-born, Grew was educated at Groton ('98) and Harvard ('02), was sent by his family to travel in the Far East, planned to return to the family's banking business. While in China, he shot a tiger in a cave - a feat that later enthralled big-game-hunting President Theodore Roosevelt. During that trip Grew became fascinated by life abroad and decided to enter the foreign service. By the time Teddy heard from a mutual friend about the tiger-slaying exploit, Grew was a $600-a-year clerk in the U.S. embassy in Cairo...
...President cried: "By Jove! I'll have to do something for that young...