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...London, New York Pier aid Tribune ex-Critic Richard Watts Jr., now Dublin representative for OWI, saw Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, turned himself inside out. Recalling that "all of us" who saw the 1939 production in Manhattan thought the play "hopelessly outmoded," he now found it "one of the great comedies,""one of the incomparable things of the theater," recanted, declaring that in 1939 "we were absurdly wrong...
Died. Peadar Kearney, 58, house painter, lyricist of The Soldier's Song, Eire's anthem; in Dublin. The tune was theme song of the 1916 rebellion (in which Kearney fought), was made the Free State anthem in 1932, when the Free State granted Peadar $2,400. Up to then the song had netted him less than $800 royalties. Theater orchestras played the anthem after every show till Kearney asked royalties for each performance; then other tunes were found...
...Overseas Branch. Most of them are just getting into operation. The branch chiefs are mostly ex-foreign correspondents like Wallace Carroll (London), former head of the U.P.'s London bureau; a couple of ex-drama critics like the New York Herald-Tribune's Richard Watts Jr. (Dublin) and Gilbert Gabriel (Anchorage) of Hearst's defunct New York American; ex-admen like J. Walter Thompson's M. L. Stiver (Canberra...
...first U.S. press attaché for Eire, former New York Herald Tribune Drama Critic Richard Watts Jr., who will also represent OWI in Dublin. Unique among drama critics, Watts spent his summers investigating China, Russia, other hot spots, filing dispatches to his paper...
...could put a stopper on the stream of supplies from the U.S. to Britain. It was a fact that the I.R.A. is as hostile to De Valera's Government as to the British. The facts : the Eire Government two years ago executed two I.R.A. men for shooting a Dublin policeman; at least 500 I.R.A. men are now political internees in Eire; in Eire it is a capital offense even to shoot at the police, and such political crimes are tried not by jury but by special military courts...