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...Flynn (libretto, lyrics & music by Brian Hooker, Russell Janney & Franklin Hauser; Russell Janney, producer) is the first musical romance to reach Broadway since last winter's Richard of Bordeaux (TIME, Feb. 26). A great many people liked Richard of Bordeaux for its color and pageantry. They should find The O'Flynn even more to their taste. A sword-&-cloaker of the first water, nimbly directed, eminently tuneful, scenically as magnificent as Hollywood's best, The O'Flynn tells a full-blooded tale about the battles between William of Orange and James II in Ireland...
...Flynn, ably impersonated by swashbuckling George Houston, does not care particularly which side he fights on so long as he is in the fray. His worldly assets, he believes, are his Castle Famine and a motley handful of loyal bog-trotters. There are tales that the castle is the hiding place of treasure, but he does not take them seriously until a credulous banker offers to lend him money on the security of the unfound trove. Meantime. The O'Flynn has enlisted on the side of William of Orange, only to fall in love with a noblewoman. Lady Benedette Mount...
Declaring that the NRA was invented to prevent Congress from fixing prices hostile to the interests of big business, John T. Flynn, noted economist, prophesied the coming of dictatorship in this country in a speech last night in the New Lecture Hall...
...Flynn stated that the New Deal's crime against the democratic state was that it grants the President power to surrender the control of the economic life of the people to trade associations and large corporations. He expected to see legal control of labor unions followed by the cooperative state, the disappearance of democracy, and a slow but sure movement toward absolute dictatorship...
...great demand as a public speaker, Mr. Flynn addressed a meeting of the Ford Hall Forum last night, speaking on the subject: "If I Were President." Mr. Flynn's last appearance before a Harvard audience was two years ago, at which time he spoke before the Harvard Inquiry on the subject of security speculation. He is the author of such books as "Security Speculation: Its Economic Effects," "Graft in Business," "God's Gold: John D. Rockefeller and His Times," "Graft in Business," and "Investment Trusts Gone Wrong...