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Words fill 'Voysey' with little to enjoy.

Publication: The Washington Times
Publication Date: 13-MAY-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Words fill 'Voysey' with little to enjoy.(SHOW)(THEATER)

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Byline: Jayne Blanchard, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Despite his Edwardian dress and Old World manners, Trenchard Voysey Sr. (John Ramsey) would be right at home with cronies in the purported questionable accounting practices of Kenneth Lay, Dennis Kozlowski and the recently convicted Bernard Ebbers. You can just picture them all toasting their exploits and swapping anecdotes over a grotesquely expensive brandy.

In Harley Granville Barker's 1905 play, "The Voysey Inheritance," Voysey runs an august British investment firm instead of a mega corporation such as Tyco or WorldCom. His clients are pleased, his reputation spotless - except that Voysey, and his father before him, have been defrauding customers by...

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