Word: irelander
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...depends what you want when you go to the theatre. The Pulitzer Prize will probably never descend upon the benign person of Mr. George M. Cohan; on the other hand Mr. Eugene O'Neill, whose forbears must hall from a very different part of Ireland, will probably never write as good an evening's entertainment as Mr. Cohan manages to turn out with annual regularity. His plays are never profound, never very original; with a fair amount of practice one can almost invariably guess what is going to happen next. But the point is that one doesn't mind...
...Irish theatre was the first to really treat pay-deserving attention to themes of local peculiarity. Twenty years ago the Irish dramatists introduced realism by a consideration of actual conditions in Ireland. America followed and today, the greatest America followed and today, the greatest American dramatist, O'Neill, still puts his plays in familiar setting and imbues them with a wealth of native material...
...disturbance is a healthy sign. It indicates interest. American audiences as a rule are much more apathetic than the Irish. Censorship in Ireland runs more in a political line than a moral one. Riots on such occasions as the exhibition of a national flag on a stage are not infrequent, and although they interrupt performances, they show that the audience is at least awake...
...theatre has a distinct advantage over the American stage in that the government grants it annually a considerable subsidy. The quality of the audiences is also better in Ireland...
Retorted President de Valera, also in Hearstpapers. "Lloyd George was the chief architect of the partition of Ireland. ... He belongs to a world that is dead...