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...early days of Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre live again each day at Lamont when the tall, distinguished-looking professor with the shock of gray hair, the shaggy eyebrows, the searching blue eyes and the soft accent begins to lecture. Denis Johnston, visiting professor of Modern Irish Literature, wrote plays for the Abbey during the exciting years when its opening nights made news around the world...
Last winter, on leave from Mount Holyoke College where he is professor of English, Johnston returned to Dublin to collect data for a biography of Dean Swift which he is completing under a Guggenheim Fellowship. Three years ago he published the autobiographical "Nine Rivers from Jordan," which dealt with his experiences as a war correspondent in the Middle East, Germany, France and Italy...
...Dublin-born writer says that despite interval careers as teacher, war correspondent and B.B.C. program director, his first love is the theater. He has not only written plays but acted in them and directed them, notably at the Gate Theatre in Dublin and on this side of the ocean at the Province-town Playhouse and the Amherst Theatre Festival. He has high praise for the Poets' Workshop Theatre here, and is very much in favor of repertoire theater, since it gives the playwright a chance to see his work enacted and to revise...
...surf. Roosevelt saw Wiley Post and Harold Gatty fly off in the Winnie Mae one June day in 1931, return eight days, 15 hours, 51 minutes later, having set a new round-the-world mark; seven years later Douglas Corrigan roared away for "California," wound up at Baldonnel Airfield, Dublin, and went down in history as "Wrong Way Corrigan." Then five years ago, Roosevelt's history-making days seemed over; housing developments were going up all around it, and it was closed...
Last week the notion proved not so fanciful at all. Dublin, which is 95% Roman Catholic, got its first Jewish mayor: Robert Briscoe, 61, a leader of Dublin's small community of 5,000 Jews. The Irish saw nothing incongruous about Alderman Briscoe's selection (which was decided by a tie-breaking draw from a black bowler). Bobby Briscoe was Dublin born and Dublin reared, had joined the I.R.A. as a mere lad, taken up arms for freedom, and worked 29 years for it with De Valera in the Dail. He had been in on some...