Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was whopping praise, in a land where Shakespeare is almost a trade and understatement almost a trademark. The target was 43-year-old Actor Ralph Richardson in the Old Vic's smash revival of Henry IV, with Sybil Thorndike and Laurence Olivier in supporting roles...
...Richardson himself had suspected that his Falstaff was going to be a failure. Only once since his teens had he seen the role performed. He had read very little about it, and he was "terrified by the enormous size of the character. . . ." But he constantly remembered Falstaff's "I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men." No mere butt, no mere burlesque, Richardson's fat knight is a restrained, highly intelligent, altogether conscious comedian, an artful creator of merriment. Hence his final fall from grace seems not pathetic but tragic...
Perhaps not even if they attack the Philippines." But the Japs "could not always avoid making mistakes. ... As the area of operations expanded, sooner or later, they would make a mistake and we would enter the war." Admiral Richardson strode briskly out of the White House, knowing that he had failed to convince the President...
...days later Navy Secretary Frank Knox called Richardson in, told him the President was afraid the Japanese might take "drastic action" when Britain re-opened the Burma Road to China. In such an event, Franklin Roosevelt wanted to set up a Navy patrol which would cut off all traffic between Japan and the Americas. The Admiral was "amazed." Stubbornly he began arguing again-the fleet was not ready for such a task. If it tried, war would surely result. Loud, hearty Frank Knox was annoyed. Said he: "Richardson, we have never been ready, but we have always...
When Admiral Leahy was called to add to the testimony of Admiral Richardson on keeping the fleet at Pearl Harbor, the headline in the Chicago Tribune said that he "forgets," in the New York Sun that he "denies," in the Philadelphia Record that he "doubts" and in PM that he "verifies" what Admiral Richardson said...