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...Dublin, N.H., the 156th annual edition of the Old Farmer's Almanac predicted that 1948 would be a year of bitter winter, fleeting summer, sun spots and crop failures...
Died. Dudley Digges, 68, veteran character actor; after a stroke; in Manhattan. One of Dublin's original Abbey Players, wry-eyed, roly-poly Digges came to the U.S. in 1904, stayed to join the infant Theatre Guild, played in 25 Guild productions (including Liliom, The Doctor's Dilemma). He reached stardom in 1938 as "Gramps," who chased Death up a tree in On Borrowed Time, won his final laurels in O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh...
...Dublin, they have tongues in their heads, and use them. Last week Art Critic Arthur Power, after looking at Jack Yeats's latest show, spoke up: "His figures look at their worst as though eaten by some hideous disease, or at their best as if they had had an unfortunate encounter with a bacon cutter. . . . His success is tempting young painters to copy his careless methods and so robbing them of all integrity...
Unlike his late, great brother, Poet William Butler Yeats, Jack Yeats suffers such attacks in dignified silence. After all, he is the unquestionable dean of Irish artists. Almost everything he paints he sells at four-figure prices, and he exerts more influence than any other Dublin painter. His raucous paintings continued to speak for themselves and draw crowds to the gallery. A less well-attended Yeats exhibition opened in Manhattan...
...story become only details in the portrayal of a man who has sold the modern equivalent of his Faustian soul, all his ties with society. For the price of two passages to America, he betrays a friend in the Irish Resistance movement, and as he walks through Dublin at night, afraid of everyone, he becomes a Judas, and a truly tragic figure. While the picture takes him through one night of repentance, drinking, boasting, but mainly fear, we see every side of a man who tries to hide from himself, and finally in death understands his great crime...