Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carroll; produced by Eddie Dowling). Last season Eddie Dowling's production of Shakespeare's King Richard II, with Maurice Evans, attracted big business and critical bravos. Last week he did it again, this time with a modern Irish religious play, first given a year ago in Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre...
...thought his presence would steady the franc and impress England. At the Coronation of King George VI dapper little Paul Reynaud, although only a private citizen, was accorded by His Majesty's Government, among whom he has many friends, one of the very best seats in Westminster Abbey. It was really he who last week gained most in France, if only in kudos...
Sean O'Casey's "The Plough and the Stars," to be performed the rest of this week, concludes the engagement of the Abbey Theatre Players in Boston. Strongly resembling "June and the Paycock," it is a still grimmer indictment of war, a more tragic display of how human values are broken and lost when men die for a cause. The setting is the Easter uprising of 1916. It is again a woman who tries to salvage something from the torrent of destruction, but this time she falls and ends in madness. No one wins anything, in fact, except that...
Irish Poet and Managing Director of the Abbey Players, F. R. Biggins will be the guest speaker at the opening lecture of Mr. Horace Reynolds' course in Modern Irish Plays and Playwrights tonight...
...created his part of "Joxer" Daly, the fawning hanger-on and salve to the Captain's petty pride, and his rendition of the character is therefore perfect. All the lesser roles are filled with skill to be expected only of acors so devoted to their work as the Abbey Players...