Word: blarney
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...Significance. There are in the world a few unsensitive people for whom the mellow, wry blarney of Author Donn-Byrne has no meaning at all. These are pitiable folk, for they will not understand the astonishing thing he has now done-written a book of modern times with all the glamour upon it that was on Messer Marco Polo, The Wind Bloweth and his other tales of days long gone. His warmest admirers will be quickest to see that he has not done this rich thing without overdoing it occasionally-slipping over briefly into unredeemed melodrama, laying...
Irish Luck. Thomas Meighan went to Ireland and. photographed most of the notable landmarks- Blarney Stone and all. The landmarks are interesting and the surrounding scenery is unusually beautiful. He worked in a story about a New York policeman who went back to the old country and took up with a handsome woman of the nobility. The whole is fairly favorable diversion...
...Irish Luck" really isn't as bad a picture as Meighan usually performs in, the reason being largely that there are things in it to draw one's attention away from Meighan. There are, for example, some excellent shots of Blarney Castle and the countryside about Killarney which are downright pretty. Just when one's enjoyment of the ivied walls and crested turrets reaches its height, Meighan walks in like an American tourist in a china shop and ruins the entire effect. We would infinitely prefer to see Ireland alone...
Significance. Stories so simple and unimposing, so "sentimental", as this one are very rarely told in public. When they are they seldom ring true. Sir James Barrie can do them, child that he is. Bonn Byrne's wistful blarney gets astonishing effects. Christopher Morley's vein is more magical; the tail of his kindly eye is almost mystically acute. This Barry Benefield, whom one cannot help identifying with Jim Pickett, seems to have no unusual gifts or tricks. Yet he is quite as irresistible as the others. An unforgettable book...
...unbiased. All three of us voted for Calvin Coolidge last November. We awaited Jenkins' opinion somewhat avidly. PERKINS: "Well, do you call that unbiased?" JENKINS: "I do not." 1 : "Then I lose. You both agree that it is undignified." JENKINS: "Not undignified, but not unbiased, either. A blarney article. I'm after thinking it a lot of soft soap in eulogy of Coolidge." I let Perkins and Jenkins go for one another. So, gentlemen, some call it mud slinging, and some call it soft soaping and I continue to congratulate you that it is neither...