Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least dressy of the world's four great theatre organizations* arrived in Manhattan last week for a month's stay before touring the U.S. Far less numerous than New York's Jews but no less demonstrative, the city's Irish gave the Abbey Theatre players from Dublin a warm Hibernian welcome. Drama lovers in general were glad to have the troupe back after a two-year absence, but the first offering, Sean O'Casey's The Plough & the Stars, was strictly for Irish ears. Its brogue was so thick that the play remained practically...
...Plough & the Stars is the power play in the Abbey's repertoire. On the light side, Lennox Robinson's Drama at Inish, seen in Manhattan last year as Is Life Worth Living?, tells the story of a troupe of serious actors who completely demoralize a seaside resort, accustomed to nothing but low comedy, with stark selections from Chekhov, Strindberg, Ibsen, Turgenev. After a fortnight, murder and melancholy break out all over the impressionable community. After seeing The Father, the local butcher throws a meat ax at his wife. After seeing An Enemy of the People, the local politico...
...earned his bread selling news papers, grew up to be a bricklayer's helper, a stonebreaker and dock hand. Like R. C. Sherriff (Journey's End), he became interested in the theatre through a group of amateurs. "Everyone was getting tired of the Abbey plays," says he. "so I decided to write one for them." The amateurs as well as the Abbey turned the play down, but William Butler Yeats wrote an en couraging letter. O'Casey wrote two more, Harvest Festival and The Crimson in the Tri-Color. The latter was set down on paper...
...Oyly Carte Opera Company made their first appearance in Manhattan. By the divine right of apostolic succession, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company is to Gilbert & Sullivan what Comedie Franchise is to Moliere, what Bayreuth is to Wagner, what the Moscow Art Theatre is to Chekov, what the Abbey Theatre is to Synge. But any number of things could turn the Savoyards' invasion of New York into a hopeless dispersion: overbilling, overconfidence or just plain cussedness on the part of U. S. critics and spectators...
...eight brothers & sisters were reared. He sat with closed eyes in a pew of little St. Mary's Church where, nearly half a century ago, he and a reedy-voiced youngster named John McCormack were altar boys together. He wandered in the ruins of the Clonmacnoise Abbey, just as he had wandered as a moppet, when the spell of the place impelled him to study for the priesthood. Now he was an Archbishop, second youngest in the U. S. It had been no easy job to suceed the late, great Cardinal Gibbons in the Baltimore Archdiocese and Archbishop Curley could...