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...early days of Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre live again each day at Lamont when the tall, distinguished-looking professor with the shock of gray hair, the shaggy eyebrows, the searching blue eyes and the soft accent begins to lecture. Denis Johnston, visiting professor of Modern Irish Literature, wrote plays for the Abbey during the exciting years when its opening nights made news around the world...
...Yeats who encouraged Johnston on the playwright's path. The Professor has carefully preserved the manuscript of his first Abbey play complete with Yeats' carefully written comments and corrections. Seven plays followed the first Johnston drama, "The Old Lady Says No," but the writer likes best his second play, "The Moon in Yellow River." This summer he hopes to complete another drama with a background of the Irish Revolution. Like many Irish playwrights, Johnston has a superstition which prevents talk about a play not yet published. "Irishmen feel if you talk too much about a play, there's a fair...
Last winter, on leave from Mount Holyoke College where he is professor of English, Johnston returned to Dublin to collect data for a biography of Dean Swift which he is completing under a Guggenheim Fellowship. Three years ago he published the autobiographical "Nine Rivers from Jordan," which dealt with his experiences as a war correspondent in the Middle East, Germany, France and Italy...
...Johnston was a graduate law student at Harvard thirty years ago, at the same time Adlai Stevenson was here. Most of his formal schooling was earlier completed in England, however, largely at Christ's College, Cambridge...
...Looking back over its long history, the U.S.L.T.A. celebrated its Diamond Jubilee by naming the alltime first ten U.S. tennis players: 1) William T. Tilden II, 2) J. Donald Budge, 3) John A. Kramer, 4) William M. Johnston, 5) H. Ellsworth Vines Jr., 6) Richard A. Gonzales, 7) Maurice E. McLoughlin, 8) William A. Larned, 9) R. N. Williams II, 10) Robert L. Riggs...