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Headmasters of Dublin schools last week were vexed, mortified, bewildered. Gaelic is taught in all the Irish Free State's schools, but its cinemas are made in the U. S. At the beginning of every holiday the children leave school well-behaved, Gaelic-speaking young ladies and gentlemen. They return with nasal voices, a vast vocabulary of U. S. slang and little regard for discipline. When given an order by a teacher, instead of a polite "Ta go mait," or "Deanfaid me e," they answer: "I gotcha, boss." Skepticism is not expressed by a simple "Ni creidim...
Under the leadership of Professor Seamus O'Casey, Dublin schoolmasters last week began a campaign to have all talking pictures made in Gaelic. Said Headmaster O'Casey: "It is bad enough when a boy acknowledges an order with the reply, 'Okay, chief,' but imagine the position of a headmistress who is addressed in a nasal drawl with the words, 'Okay, baby...
...Louis Israel Dublin, statistician for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., discovered by investigating 38,269 Eastern college graduates that Phi Beta Kappa men and honor students live longer than athletes and plain graduates...
...Irish project is sure, in a city with the Irish ingredients of New York, of many and potent sympathizers. In the original Irish Theatre group there were twelve members, including a clerk from Bog of Allah named Sean Dillon, a Dublin sign painter, a Drogheda school teacher, a traveler named Rex Moore McVitty who came originally from Tandiragee, and two professional actresses, one from Athlone, one from Wicklow. Co-directors were Miceal Breathnach, a Galway engineer, and Patric Farrell, a young man with social connections in Manhattan, protégeé of Sir Thomas Glen-Coats. They had no trouble...
...exhibit were Sir John Lavery and the late Sir William Orpen, two great Irishmen whose memberships in London's Royal Academy have dimmed the fact that they belong also to the Royal Hibernian Academy which, chartered in 1823, now has 24 members and a gallery on Grafton Street, Dublin. Sir John and Sir William were eagerly reclaimed for Ireland last week. One of the three Orpens on view was a severe portrait of Solomon R. Guggenheim. Other paintings on view were a seascape by the late Nathaniel Hone, last survivor of the Barbizon School; 20 lively sea and landscapes...