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Died. George Noble, Count Plunkett, 96, Irish literary and art patron, and fiery fighter for a free Eire; in Dublin. The bush-bearded, pouch-eyed papal count, first Sinn Fein candidate to be elected to the Irish Parliament (in 1917), served the new republic as Minister of Foreign Affairs (1919-21) and Fine Arts...
Where Stars Walk (by Micheál MacLiammóir; produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers, in association with Brian Doherty) is the Dublin Gate Theater's third Broadway production and first wholly inside job. Written by one of the Gate's two founders and star performers, the play isn't really much good but it is often exceedingly pleasant. Half fantasy and half satire, in its dawdling as well as its dreaming it is altogether Irish...
...scene is the Dublin drawing room of Sophia Sheridan (stylishly played by Meriel Moore), a retired actress who is helping a local little theater group do a play about Ireland's legendary Princess Etáin and her faery lover Midir. But while these people are languidly puttering around with legend, the real Etáin and Midir (nicely played by Helena Hughes and Playwright MacLiammóir) are working as Mrs. Sheridan's parlormaid and houseman. Immortals who have strayed far & long from fairyland, they go back to it, hand in hand...
...however, one other distinction novel in a Taoiseach: he was a keen weekend golfer (averaging 85-90) at the Dublin Club, Eire's St. Andrews...
...Lady Says "No!" (by Denis Johnston; produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers, in association with Brian Doherty) followed John Bull's Other Island as the Dublin Gate Theater's second Broadway offering. A highly expressionistic fantasy first produced in 1929, it tells of an actor (Micheál MacLiammoir) who is accidentally knocked unconscious while playing Irish Rebel Robert Emmet (1778-1803) in a costume play. The rest of The Old Lady consists of the actor's delirious visions: he is still Emmet, but an Emmet wandering through the streets and pubs and literary gatherings...