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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stage Manager P. J. Carolan, in playing Fluther Good, presents an ordinary, ignorant, proud Dublin tenement-dweller with splendid vividness. M. J. Dolan is Uncle Peter Flynn, and amiable old man made the pathetic butt of a Socialist's humor. That socialist, played by Denis O'Dea, is reduced to pillaging and playing cards, nervously squatting on the floor of an attic, because he will not participate in a futile rebellion. Mareen Delany and May Craig are splendid as a pair of garrulous, short-tempered kind-hearted fishwives, the latter singing "Rule Brittania" throughout the uprising. All these people...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/14/1938 | See Source »

...Carolan takes over the role of "Captain" Jack Boyle, the tawdry "paycock," and superbly prevents the depravity of his role from becoming lost in its amusing elements. The latter are dangerously prominent, since the first act of the tragedy is pure comedy. Eileen Crowe is superb for the role of "Juno" Boyle, who receives her divinely regal name for the internal reason that everything in her life happened in June, but for dramatic reasons less fortuitous. F. J. McCormick has created his part of "Joxer" Daly, the fawning hanger-on and salve to the Captain's petty pride...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/5/1938 | See Source »

...week at the riding academy. The next afternoon the sheriff sent eight deputies to seize the bodies of John and Sophie Crempa. As usual the Crempa grounds were deserted, the house looked vacant, the blinds were down. The posse's commander was a non-Pole, Deputy Sheriff Edward Carolan. Its armament: six .32 and .38 revolvers, one shotgun, two tear-gas guns. Mr. Carolan deployed his men around the house, broke a window with a stick and had his men fire tear-gas shells into the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Crempas | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

HARVARD GEORGETOWN Mays, 2b. c.f., Evers Thacher, 3b. l.f., Kilgallen Wood, s.s. s.s., McNamara Lupien, r.f. r.f., King Gleason, c.f. c., Rapp McCaffrey, l.f. 3b., Hutchinson Sheldon, 1b. 2b., Lione Fincke, c. 1b., Carolan Sprague or Taylor, p. p., Heaney or Noznesky...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINE GOES AFTER ITS SIXTH VICTORY OF SEASON TODAY | 5/12/1932 | See Source »

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