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Resigned. James Milliken Speers. 66, board chairman of James McCutcheon & Co., Manhattan linen merchants; from the presidency of that company; on the 50th anniversary of his arriving from Ireland and joining the firm. To succeed him was appointed William Charles McCutcheon...
Following this the Choral Society will sing two songs from Shakespeare--"Full Fathom Five" by John Ireland and "It was a Lover and His Lass" by H. Vaughan Williams; "Cherry Stones" by the Marquis of Bland ford; and "Follow Me Down to Carlow", an Irish folk song...
Born in Dublin where his lawyer father still lives, Joyce was educated for the Catholic priesthood at Clongowes Wood College, Belvedere College, Royal University. But Joyce was not the stuff of which priests are made. At nine he wrote a pamphlet against Parnell; at 22 he left Ireland and the Church for good. After exile in Rome, Trieste, Zurich, he settled in Paris; supported life by teaching, directing plays; finished his first great opus, Ulysses. The book was published in Paris (1922) by Bookseller Sylvia Beach, spinster daughter of a Princeton, N. J., Presbyterian divine. Because of its obscene passages...
Joyce is as little popular with his brother Irish as with his mother Church: once he called his native country "the old sow that eats her farrow." He has been back to Ireland only twice since he left: in 1904 to open Dublin's first cinema; the last time in 1912. In 1904 he married Nora Barnacle, Galway girl; they have two children; Singer George, Dancer Lucia (who last year wrote a play about a girl who fell in love with the Pont Alexandre-Trois, famed Paris bridge...
Waller, a native of County Cork, Ireland, has had a distinguished career as Secretary of the League of Nations Society of Ireland, during which time he has been present at various Congresses of the Federation of the League of Nations Societies all over Europe, as well as at the Assembly itself...