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...another vast, able biography by St. John Ervine (TIME, Sept. 24), contains much that is new, from correspondence with Sidney and Beatrice Webb to Shaw's own words-enough of them to fill an ordinary volume. It is as thoroughly documented for the time when Shaw was a Dublin clerk as for the time of his London preeminence. Yet the total effect is one of mystery. All his life Shaw shouted his ideas from the world's rooftops. But even an "authorized" biographer like Archibald Henderson is full of hesitancies in deciding which of Shaw's contradictory...
Among the modern followers of that tradition, Welsh-born Augustus John gives his portraits of the great a romantic dash and bravura air that raises them far above the cliche level of most Royal Academy official portraits. Dublin-born Francis Bacon with his eerie studies has introduced into portraiture the element of overpowering psychological shock that leaves an echo in the mind like a scream in an empty corridor, and has made Bacon one of the best and most individual artists in Britain today...
...immigrants have never stopped coming. Today, more than half of New York State's 16 million inhabitants are immigrants or the children of immigrants. New York City alone has more Irish than Dublin, more Italians than Rome, more Jews than Israel, more Puerto Ricans than San Juan. From the tangled threads of the state's 75 national and racial groups is woven the most intricate political tapestry in U.S. history...
...know by heart." Other program items: Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Brahms's Second Symphony. At the end, the orchestra and Conductor Charles Munch (whose wife had died in Paris three days before) received a ten-minute ovation. Next day, before a top-drawer audience in Dublin, the ovation was repeated. But the Irish Times critic was totally unmoved by the sentimentality of the occasion. "The orchestra is very accomplished," he wrote, after the Cork concert. "It plays with great precision and a fine, sensitive response to the conductor's expressive beat. The accomplishment, however...
...after the last Earl had died, his heir, Mrs. Beatrice Grosvenor, was forced to put 8,500 acres of the 9,000-acre estate up for sale so that she could pay off a ?70,000 ($196,000) inheritance tax. But she could find no buyer. Irishmen in Dublin, afraid that Killarney would fall into unsympathetic hands, started a fund-raising campaign, could raise only ?10,000. In the U.S., sharing similar fear, the Bartenders Association of Boston voted $1,000 (?357) for a "Save Killarney" fund-also not enough...