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...motive power behind all these rumors was a document signed at London (TIME, Dec. 14) by the representatives of Great Britain, Ulster and the Irish Free State. It provides that the boundary between northern and southern Ireland shall remain as at present, and that Britain shall relinquish all claims upon the Free State for payment of Ireland's part of the British War debt. The agreement had been ratified earlier in the week by the British House of Commons and the Ulster Chamber. It awaited only the ratification of the Dáil before becoming operative. Why then...
...list of signatories in full: Stanley Baldwin, Winston Churchill, Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Lord Birkenhead and C. S. Amery for the British Government; William T. Cosgrave, Kevin O'Higgins, Mr. Blythe and Mr. O'Byrne for the Free State ; and for Northern Ireland Sir James Craig and J. Blackmore, Secretary to tha Northern Ireland Cabinet...
Irish Luck. Thomas Meighan went to Ireland and. photographed most of the notable landmarks- Blarney Stone and all. The landmarks are interesting and the surrounding scenery is unusually beautiful. He worked in a story about a New York policeman who went back to the old country and took up with a handsome woman of the nobility. The whole is fairly favorable diversion...
...Blarney Castle and the countryside about Killarney which are downright pretty. Just when one's enjoyment of the ivied walls and crested turrets reaches its height, Meighan walks in like an American tourist in a china shop and ruins the entire effect. We would infinitely prefer to see Ireland alone...
...remains a pleasant travelogue of Ireland, "Irish Luck" is a great picture. Beyond that it is terrible. Knowing how we felt about Mr. Meighan, the producers added insult to injury by using him in a double role, first as an American policeman and secondly as an Irish lord. It reminded us of the time that Buster Keaton took the part of the entire audience, the orchestra, and the cast, in one of his earlier comedies. It was just about as convincing...