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There is no doubt that Mark Twain built his reputation in America on the popular conception that he was a very funny man. After his famous "Jumping Frog" story, he was "made." But humor is not the only trade mark of Twain. A genuine and deep bitterness, sometimes strung out in novel-sized (often two volume novel-sized) indictments of the human race, is equally characteristic...

Author: By Pauline A. Rubbelke, | Title: Mark Twain Tonight | 11/14/1959 | See Source »

...Mark Twain Tonight! Actor Hal Holbrook, 34, lends wit and wile to his re-creation of Samuel Clemens, 70, in a brilliant display of Americana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Sep. 7, 1959 | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...Mark Twain Tonight! The white-mustached, white-suited, cantankerous old hu' morist burns as pungently as his own stogie when Hal Holbrook brings him to life in a brilliant solo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Aug. 31, 1959 | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...Mark Twain Tonight! Actor Hal Holbrook, 34, ages, rages and charms as he brilliantly re-creates the wit and wisdom of the humorist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Aug. 17, 1959 | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...Mark Twain Tonight! Actor Hal Holbrook, 34, ages, rages and charms as he brilliantly re-creates the wit and wisdom of the 70-year-old humorist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Aug. 10, 1959 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

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