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marvel to the audience and a source of fear to the company. He would be seen one minute on the stage, and the next the audience would see him gesticulating in an upper box, from which he would descend to the stage with the agility of a monkey. He threw himself around without regard to consequences and once a fall laid him up for several weeks. Also, he insisted that the others in the company should be equally energetic and fearless of hurt. Once he dragged the young woman who was playing "opposite" him through a property window with such violence that her knee cap was fractured.
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