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... incorrigible Old Cock is in the Shakespearean comedy tradition those parts which used to be cut for schoolroom reading. Modernly speaking, Mr. Mankowitz has done (and high time, too) for the Cockney English what James Joyce did for the Dublin Irish. He's been ...

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