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...small Irish town to the scandalous book of a local schoolmaster. The action centers about the local Canon, who, with classical dignity, decides the provincial efforts of the townspeople to burn the txe publically with malicious ceremony--but he dismisses the teacher. The balancing force in this conflict is Brigid, the Canon's maid, who is in communication with her namesake, St. Brigid, and who has a longing to become a nun. Although the play admits of no explicit and patent interpretation, I would venture the theory that Brigid, in her simple piety, open love and semi-martyrdom...
Born. To George Mansfield (Prince Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Christof of Prussia), 34, Kaiser Wilhelm II's Anglicized grandson, and the former Lady Brigid Guinness, 26, daughter of the Earl of Iveagh, Dublin brewer ("Guinness is good for you"): their first child, a son; in Essex, England. Name: William Mansfield...
Married. Prince Georg Wilhelm Christof of Prussia, 33, grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II, great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria; and Lady Brigid Katherine Rachel Guinness, 25, youngest daughter of the Earl of Iveagh, Dublin brewer; in Hadham, Hertfordshire, England...
...cold clarity of learning and the classical grandeur of the Church. At the other angle of the triangle is Dermot Francis O'Flingsley, the rebellious schoolmaster who attacks the Canon and the Church as being cruelly aloof from the pain and squalor of life. And at the apex is Brigid, the simple child who was visited by the spirit of her namesake, St. Brigid and who, dying, left the two men she loved alone in their bitterness...
...learned canon, Cedric Hardwicke acted with strength, irony, and restraint. Julie Haydon, playing Brigid, was naive and simple in a part which in less skilled hands might verge on Baby Snooks. And although Lloyd Gough overplayed the rebel pedagogue, Sara Allgood, uproariously funny as Miss Jemima Cooney, (a local spinster), and a superb cast more than made...