Word: stevenson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stevenson's story is common knowledge. Suffice it to say that Oscar Homolka, as the liquor beridden skipper who lost his ship and his papers while suffering from overmuch tipping of the bottle, is at times excellent and at times downright boring. Barry Fitzgerald, as the disreputable cockney, almost holds the picture up on his own shoulders only to damp it by horribly overacting. Ray Milland and Miss Farmer supply the love interest, but neither get very excited over their emotion; in fact the former does not know how to walk on the screen, let alone act. As a mugger...
...unmonocled duplicity. To the simple folk of Dymchurchhe is an example in godliness; to his pirate crew, an iron leader; to His Majesty's revenuers, a headache- all of which added together make a picture to appeal to those who in an earlier era adored Robert Louis Stevenson...
...involved with him in such seditious pranks that the pair escaped arrest and imprisonment only by the narrowest of margins. It was not until Moore had settled in England, some time after, that he wrote his Irish Melodies, the series of poems which, set to music by Sir John Stevenson and containing such songs as Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms, Oh, Breathe Not His Name.* The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls, comprise the work for which he is chiefly remembered. Though the Melodies are filled with romantic, hazy references to the woes of Erin...
...swear I am hungry for something to read every time I lay down Stevenson...
...personal collection of books are in this Memorial Room, a collection of 3300. Of especial note is the famous Shakespeare folio. Also here is a book published by William Caxton in the latter part of 1494, together with quite a complete collection of first editions of Robert Louis Stevenson...