Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Irish Theatre, founded near the beginning of the century and represented primarily by the Abbey Players new in their last week in Boston, has long been the subject of culogy among people interested in the drama. Much of this praise is legitimate, although such grandiose heralding as "magic players in magic plays," and "brilliant repertoire," approaches the kissing of the Blarney Stone. It is doubtful whether Synge, perhaps the greatest of the Irish playwrights, as he listened through a chink in the floor of his upstairs room in a little peasant house where he lived to learn and understand...
...catching on to the rhythmic lilt and the brogue of the dialogue, easily anticipated by reading the play in question, the factor which may evoke difficulty is the seeming lack of patriotism, shown by their absence, of Boston's political corps. Incidentally, seeing a performance or so of the Abbey players is a fine way of attaining atmosphere for that examination in Comparative Literature...
...stunning array of truly exceptional dramatic and motion picture offerings which confront Boston theatregoers this week sets the high water mark for the year. The polished Abbey Players with their beautiful Elleen Crowo present a sophisticated yet poetically smooth type of drama that must appeal to the most sincere and intellectual appreciation...
...most sentimental nation on earth . . . 50 to 100 years should be sufficient commemoration by a statue for numbers of men so honored. ... It is a very striking thing that some of the most eminent men, men without whose names English history could not be written, are commemorated in the Abbey ... by a simple inscription on the wall or floor...
...There are monstrosities in the Abbey, memorials to quite insignificant people and events, and some quite vulgar things, but remember that we have in the Abbey what I believe is unique-a more or less complete category showing the gradual growth of taste for the last 400 years. . . . Some of these things may be very ugly, but they were the best that could be done by the representative men of their time. . . . My main point is that they should be kept together somewhere...