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DeVere Oliver Thompson
With the possible exception of "Antony and Cleopatra," "Henry V" more than any other of Shakespeare's plays strains even the plastic Elizabethan stage beyond its limits. Oliver in his role of producer-director makes the most of the potentially wonderful freedom and mobility of motion pictures, thereby giving "Henry...
The picture opens on an Oliver reproduction of the Globe Theater and follows him and his company through the first "act" of the play as Olivier imagines it was performed in Shakespeare's time. Although it might be argued that the cinematic version of the Globe contains inaccuracies of construction...
Speaking from the other side of the political fence, hard-hitting Oliver Lyttelton, Minister of Production in Winston Churchill's Government, proposed extending the carrot system to everyone. His remedy for declining production was to stimulate all British workers by releasing automobiles, gasoline, luxuries for home consumption instead of...
¶ Appointed North Carolina's ex-Governor Oliver Max Gardner, longtime friend and New Deal aide to Franklin Roosevelt, to the little-publicized but important post of Under Secretary of the Treasury.