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Donn Byrne died in 1928 but Maurice Walsh carries on in Donn Byrne manner. Author Walsh writes of Ireland, but not the Ireland of Yeats, Synge or Joyce. His Erin is a Ruritania set to music, a light operetta in which broken hearts, murder, the open road, gentlemen disguised as tinkers, and a couple of good rough-&-tumbles lead inevitably to the old sweet finale. The Road to Nowhere's pages are damp with manly sentiment and the hero ("a man amongst men, simple men, kindly men, men who could be terrible, men who used strong language...
Kuhn, Loeb Partner George Wallace Bovenizer was elected president of the Investment Bankers Association to fill out the unexpired term of Robert E. Christie Jr. who died while in an airplane flight to Chicago fortnight ago. Ireland-born, Manhattan-educated, Mr. Bovenizer started with Kuhn, Loeb as an office boy in 1897. Big, genial, approachable, he was elected a partner 30 years later, is immensely popular as manager of Kuhn, Loeb's bond and syndicate department...
...Epsom Derby, as everyone knows, is much more than a horse-race attracting the biggest crowd of the year. It is also a means of deciding one of the three huge lotteries of a Dublin Committee for the benefit of all the hospitals in Ireland. For this year's Derby the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes took in $14,373.000, of which it was ready to pay out $9,137.000 in prize money. Few days before the race, the committee with elaborate ceremonies picks ticket-holders for each horse in the race. The value of each ticket varies with...
...Warner). Ireland, in the cinema, is usually represented by 1) "Wearing of the Green" played by bagpipes; or 2) Marion Davies saying "acushla." The Key is, therefore, an Irish experiment. Adapted from the London play by R. Gore Brown and J. L. Hardy, with an imported cast including J. M. Kerrigan, once of the Abbey Players, it tries hard to use the Dublin riots of 1920 as authentic background for a semi-serious melodrama...
...German girl child was born in London 115 years ago last week to become Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and later Empress of India. Thus did Britain become an Empire. Last week on Victoria's birthday Britain and her Commonwealth of Nations celebrated Empire Day. ¶ In Ottawa, Canada's Premier Bennett raised his voice to tell a Canadian Chamber of Commerce luncheon in London by wireless telephone: "All our ideas of Empire have changed except that of devoted allegiance to the Crown.'' ¶ In Cape Town, General Jan Christiaan Smuts declared: ''Secession...