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...another poster advertising ?20 reward for information leading to the capture of Frankie McPhillip (Wallace Ford), who belongs to the Sinn Fein organization from which Gypo has been dismissed for disobedience. Frankie is Gypo's best friend. The ?20 will take Gypo and his Katie out of Ireland. Gypo Nolan's piglike little eyes twinkle as he debates the issue thus presented with himself. Then he lumbers off to the Black & Tan headquarters and collects the reward, for revealing that Frankie has come down from the hills to his mother's house where, a few minutes later...
Major Noel Furlong's Reynoldstown, a big black steeplechaser, bred by his modestly well-to-do owner in Ireland, was ridden by Major Furlong's son, a onetime officer in the Ninth Lancers, who finished second in the Grand National of 1933. In need of the ,?6.570 first prize for his forthcoming wedding, Gentleman Jockey Frank Furlong galloped strongly through the last heart-breaking uphill 300 yards. At the finish, Reynoldstown was first by three lengths. Said Frank Furlong: "I don't know...
Skehan spent the first 32 years of his life in Ireland and the Middle West where he knocked about in Kansas for three years following his arrival from the old country in 1882. It was not until 1885 that he got a job in Cambridge. He always maintained that it "was the greatest mistake of my 72 years of life" when he came to work for the University...
...Author. From Kilkenny, Ireland, Francis Hackett came to the U. S. at 17, became a literary journalist, first in Chicago, then in Manhattan, where his weekly pages in The New Republic made town talk for eight years. In 1922 he stopped writing about books, began writing about men. Research for his Henry the Eighth took him six years. On Francis the First he spent five...
WHEELS AND BUTTERFLIES - William Butler Yeats-Macmillan ($2). Latest Abbey Theatre plays, with introductions, of the good grey poet of Ireland...