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Robertson Davies, Toronto playwright and English professor, says he feels like dancing a jig because so many wonderful things are happening to me all (...)

Date2/12/1974

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Davies, Robertson, 1913-1995 (subject)

Goode, Jeff (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Robertson Davies, Toronto playwright and English professor, says he feels like dancing a jig because so many wonderful things are happening to me all at once. Among them is the premiere of his 13th play, Question Time, at the St. Lawrence Centre tomor

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