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...Heart. Consequently, any picture of which the Irish hero is neither a rustic clown nor a cow-eyed crooner with a rush of brogue to the face can be classed immediately as a daring experiment. The Informer, of which the hero is a drunken, overgrown, dull-witted and cowardly Dublin bully, is a daring experiment and considerably more. Adapted by Dudley Nichols from Liam O'Flaherty's novel of the same name, it tells with superb, ironic power the story of Gypo Nolan (Victor McLaglen) and one night, his last, in the murky slums of Dublin. Implicit...
John Winthrop was an alchemist but an enterprising, open-minded one. Born in 1606 at Groton, England, he had attended Dublin's Trinity College, later dabbled in the law, spent five years junketing about Europe, encountered many a scholarly personage with whom he kept in touch by correspondence in Latin. When, at 24, he followed his father to the New World, he was undismayed by the fact that the colonies had no college, no scientific society, laboratory or library. He imported the first library and the first apparatus. His was the idea for the first chemical stock company...
...Comedy of Good and Evil" was produced in London in 1924. It has since been produced with succes at the famous Abbey Theatre in Dublin, but the showing here will be the American premiere of the play. Mr. Hughes is already known in this country for his novel "High Wind in Jamaica," also known as "The Innocent Voyage...
Visiting Washington last week, the Right Honorable Alderman Alfred Byrne, Lord Mayor of Dublin, sat down to listen to a radio broadcast of the 97th running of the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree. A reporter asked him who he thought would win. Lord Mayor Byrne called for pencil & pad, puffed out his cheeks, wrote down his selections: 1, Reynoldstown; 2, Blue Prince; 3, Thomond II. The announcer said: "They...
That the Lord Mayor of Dublin should have been asked to pick the winners of the Grand National last week was less inappropriate than it seemed. Irish steeplechasers are the world's best. The race decides one of the three huge annual lotteries of the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes Committee. Last week while the race was being run, hundreds of optimistic individuals who had bought sweepstakes tickets sat glued to their radios in the U. S. If the Lord Mayor's prediction, of which they were entirely unaware, came true, it meant $143,000 to a Bronx housewife...