Word: blarney
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Part ancient Irish saga, part blarney, Sons of the Swordmaker, by Maurice Walsh (Stokes, $2.50), concerns the five sons of Orugh the Swordmaker. They are an accomplished bunch. Delgaun lops the head off of fabled Fergus the Killer, wins an enigmatic redhead named Alor. Flann One-Hand wanders over Ireland itself, gets mixed up with Fer Rogain, Conaire the King, cools a rustic spitfire named Dairne. Most adventurous part of the tale is the oldtime Gaelic talk: Says Delgaun of Alor: "She has red hair and she stays in a man's mind. Brief enough, but enough. She draws...
...Star reporters wrote front-page stories in fake Irish dialect. As a million people watched him go up Broadway, Corrigan's modest self-assurance set Manhattan's press crowing louder than ever. Said F. Raymond Daniell of the Times: "A hero with his tongue in his cheek, blarney on his lips and the twinkle of the devil in his eyes." Said William D. O'Brien of the World-Telegram: ". . . A sight of Corrigan himself, with the lean peaked face alight with the puckish smile, the same captivating gift coming, it seemed sure, from the Little Folk...
...President of Manhattan's Leash Club, of the Morris County Golf Club, N. J. and he knows dogs. One of only four dogs which have twice won Westminster's Best in Show-all four were fox terriers-was John Bates's wire Ch. Pendley Calling of Blarney, in 1930 and 1931. Seven times Bates has been chairman of Westminster Shows. For many years he raised Irish terriers. Nowadays, he shoots over twelve pointers four of which are show-ring champions...
Based on the highly debatable theory that the Celtic character is the most charming and the most comical of human phenomena, His Family Tree is principally a frame for James Barton's elaborate embroideries in brogue, blarney, eye-twin-kling and jig-steps. That an obsolete comicstrip narrative is not actually offensive is due to the skill of Joel Sayre and John Twist who adapted it for the screen. Good shot: Barton's skit of a drunk trying to read a newspaper which ends when he has rolled it helplessly into a soggy ball...
...Packard making up her mind to give her maid a bracelet. Paddy, the Next Best Thing (Fox) is very clearly Fox's notion of the next best thing to Metro's Peg 0' My Heart. It is an idyll of the Irish countryside, dripping with Hollywood blarney, Janet Gaynor's girlish charm and terms of endearment like "acushla...