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  • If Joan of Arc had been born in Austria and worn a moustache, she might have conveyed much the same impression.

    -1st Viscount
      Letter to GeorgeV, referring to his first meeting with Adolf Hitler, 27 Mar. US playwright.  His  plays  and  musicals  include  Barefoot  in  the Park     (1963),     The     Odd     Couple     (1965)     and     the     semi- autobiographical trilogy  Brighton Beach Memoirs (1983), Biloxi Blues  (1984)  and  Broadway  Bound  (1986).  More  recent  works include  Lost  in Yonkers  (1991),  which  won  him  a  Pulitzer  Prize and aTonyAward, and London Suite (1995).

  •    You're never too old to play Saint Joan; you're only too young.

    - Dame (Agnes) Sybil Thorndike
    Quoted in Julie HarrisTalks toYoung Actors (1971).

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