Word: caseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sing Out, Sweet Land! (Decca, 10 sides). A merry survey of 300 years of U.S. music from the late Broadway musical. Best of the 17 songs are Big Rock Candy Mountain, sung by Burl Ives, Casey Jones by Bibi Osterwald, and such treasures as Little Mohee and Frankie and Johnny. Performance: good...
...went into action on Bataan with a combat engineers outfit known as "Casey's Dynamiters," was captured, subjected to the rigors of the "March of Death," and eventually confined at Cabanatuan. Gertrude Hornbostel might have escaped internment. She spurned the chance and spent three years in the filthy hell of Santo Tomas. In February 1945 they were reunited. Her health had been impaired by malnutrition and beriberi. But the Hornbostels feared something worse...
Before he thought of writing plays, or had a spare shilling to spend on a ticket to the Abbey Theater, O'Casey swung a pick & shovel as a day laborer, worked at nights for the cause of the Gaelic League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Citizen Army. He lived with his mother in a few flea-ridden Dublin slum rooms. When bis sister died, there was no money in the house to bury her. When his brother-in-law went crazy, the clutchers came in a plain, black cab and carried him off to the home for loony paupers...
Finally, there was the Trouble, begun on Easter Monday, 1916: Pearse, Connolly, Tom Clarke and the boys taking over the General Post Office on O'Connell Street, the terrible days of gunfire, burning, looting. O'Casey, with hundreds of others, was corralled and locked up by British soldiers. "Th' wild Irish," said a soldier then; "drink goes to their 'eads. Wot was bitin' em? Barmy, th' lot of 'em. Wot did they do it for? Larfable." "Poor, dear, dead men," says O'Casey now, "poor W. B. Yeats." The wit and rich...
...Explained O'Casey the other day, talking in his Devonshire home: "After all, I've been a Communist for 25 years, which is half a lifetime." But, he added: "I am almost a supporter of all parties, whether Tory or Liberal, Socialist or Catholic, Mohammedan, Buddhist or Labor. All my life I've been in the struggle to see things improved, which is what everyone else is trying to do too, isn't it?" His latest play, Red Roses for Me, produced in suburban London in February, is about the Dublin transport strike of 1913. Said...