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...Molly Bawn...
...letters show that Molly Bawn bewitched, bothered, and bewildered Shaw, but they do not wholly show why. He resisted her coquetry, but he could not resist her ignorance, the last temptation of the learned. His mind rushed in to fill that mental vacuum. That is why the Eliza Doolittles of this world are always snaring the Professor Higginses...
...Southern-Yankee who was bawn in Birmin'ham but raised in Larchmont," he stood shakily on a platform of "beer...
Last week Dublin dockworkers unloading the ship Slieve Bawn from Liverpool heard tappings and groans coming from the inside of a large packing case. Investigating, they uncrated a distinguished-looking, middle-aged man packed in a stack of paintings. Hysterical from being stood upside down for seven hours, the man was taken, gabbling incoherent French, to the Jervis Street Hospital. There he identified himself as Maurice Carassus de Laboujac, 40, a French painter who, unable to secure a passport visa, had shipped himself as freight to his own Dublin exhibition...
...Most successful 19th-Century playwright was famed Irish-born Dion Boucicault whose The Streets of New York played 2,800 times in all, London Assurance 2,900 times, The Colleen Bawn...