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...become leader of the fight for Ireland's Home Rule. The climax of Parnell's career has been ably studied in a recent biography (Parnell, by Joan Haslip) as well as in Author Schauffler's play. He vindicated himself of complicity in Dublin's grisly Phoenix Park murders, got Gladstone to back his Home Rule bill, fell in love with red-haired Katie O'Shea. Her husband Willie connived at their romance until it suited his purpose to sue for divorce. When Parnell failed to defend the suit, he lost not only the public that...
...into giving him a political job. It shows Parnell dying of a stroke almost immediately after his Party has deserted him and before his marriage to Katie. It is at its best in earlier sequences showing Parnell speaking in Parliament at the time of the trial arising from the Phoenix Park case. Best bit part: Brandon Tynan, Dublin-born actor, who got 27 curtain calls the night in 1902 when he appeared in New York in the title role of a play about Irish Patriot Robert Emmet, as J. F. X. O'Brien, oldest member of the Home Rule...
...editorial page is an excellent transcript of the original, but what has become of Pegasus? Does the Phoenix rise triumphant after all? In a Sullivanesk manner the Editor takes the stand and reveals the cliches of his trade. Several letters, ranging from the violent to the academic, follow in their usual place. More reviews bring us to "The Bowling Alley," where the King of the Kinsprits gets what's been coming to him these many years. The person who ghosted this feature deserves to be congratulated on having imitated Morley's manner so well, even to the footloose anecdotes...
William Rose Benet suffers less successfully in "The Phoenix Nest"(which should, of course, have become "The Mare's Nest"). The first part of this article on Poetry is better than the second which goes Esquirish in its strain for 'satire'. George Jean Nathan comes out second best too, despite the fact that his parodist has chosen a subject close to the Nathan heart. Neither the virility. nor yet the scurrility of Nathan's style is well imitated...