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Nazis & Fascists. The Fascist station master greets him: "Ah, Signor Farkas, welcome." At the Hotel Paradiso, the manager bows and scrapes. Three Nazi officers staying at the Paradiso are impressed, try to make conversation. "Herr Farkas," says one, "my wife has just written me. She went to see a play of yours. In Dresden. She enjoyed it tremendously." Farkas stares, smiles coldly, answers in French. He has no love for Nazis or for Fascists...
...keep the clothes he wears on the screen, so he has not bought a suit in five years. Says Iturbi: "The radio-ooh. If you make a mistake everyone hears it. They do not see you as a personality, they do not realize you are human. But the movies, ah. You repeat, you dub, you play perfect...
...guard who relieved him on one of the seized boats, an 18-year-old pfc. from Tennessee drawled: "Ah swear ah did not hear a shot fired, but sure's shootin my kids'll read this in the history book some general'll dream...
...applicants was a nondescript Welshman, who with the help of Johnston's imagination and a dime-store bandanna emerged as Gypsy Daniels, eldest son of a gypsy king who lived at the foot of Rhondda Mountain in Wales. Jimmy also wowed New York's Chinatown with Ah Wong, a "Chinese lightweight" whose real name was Mickey Mulligan...
...Eamon de Valera, young and "full of the seven deadly virtues"; William Butler Yeats, who in his "strange, deep way" loved the people more than Griffith or De Valera did "or ever could"; Patrick Pearse, the one militant leader to fight for Ireland "from the midst of the Faith" ("Ah, Patrick Pearse, you were a man, a poet, with a mind simple as a daisy"). And all the rest of the Irish, great & small: the Pat O'Rourkes, Maggie Burkes, Tim Sheas, Muldoon the Solid Man, the Rose of Tralee, Dr. Michael O'Hickey, Tom Clarke, Sean...