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...Archbishop of Dublin blocked performance of The Drums of Father Ned, and in retaliation Sean O'Casey, 83, announced that nevermore would any of his plays be produced professionally in the Republic of Ireland. But Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre is due to perform two of his works-Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars-next year in London at a drama festival of companies from all over Europe. Naturally they want to do the plays justice, and they have asked permission to produce them in Dublin for a two or three weeks' trial...
...Named for Ned Ludd, a Leicestershire halfwit, whose famed attacks on machines at the turn of the 19th century helped to inspire roving bands of wreckers who blamed mechanized weaving for widespread unemployment...
...Tracy Wynn, 18, belongs with his brother Ned, 22, to the third generation of stage-struck Wynns (preceded by Father Keenan and Grandfather Ed). Tracy has his first stage role this summer (in San Diego's La Jolla Playhouse dramatization of Tom Sawyer), but he never had much doubt about his career. When his interest occasionally wandered from the theater, he recalls, his mother would "remind me that we were a theatrical family and that that's where I ought...
...Clothes. Hetty and Henry remained together 14 years-or as long as it took them to consume most of his inheritance. After the separation, Hetty moved into a cheap Brooklyn flat with her two children. Sylvia, when she grew old enough, did the cooking; Ned served his mother as a messenger boy, delivering bonds and other securities to Hetty's out-of-town brokers. The richest woman in America bought her children's clothes from an old-clothes dealer. When Ned developed an infection in one leg, Hetty tried to have it treated without charge at a succession...
...property (in Chicago, San Francisco, St. Louis) so shrewdly that by her death at 80 she had increased at least 20 times over the fortune she inherited. But no great American fortune has ever been dispersed quite so rapidly. In the nine years before his death in 1936, Ned spent it at the rate of $5,000,000 a year, much of it going into his collection of jewels and rare stamps and coins. When Sylvia, sole beneficiary under Ned's will, died with no close relatives in 1951, she bequeathed most of her fortune to schools, hospitals...