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...South. Thanks to their inability to analyze reality, and to the whole paternalistic structure, Southerners recognized no such conflict; and politics remained "a theatre for the play of the purely personal, the purely romantic, the purely hedonistic." Nor did the Anglican tradition of religious tolerance appeal to that fierce Celt-blooded primitive. He required "a faith as simple and emotional as himself." By Jackson's time the power of the evangelists over the whole Southern mind was so great that "skepticism . . . was anathema, and lack of frenetic zeal was . . . heresy." In such a mind pure hedonism and iron puritanism...
...countrified Celt as well as a citified Englander, Poet MacNeice spends many of his poems in trying to figure how a contemporary European can seriously find any purpose in modern country life, any coherence in modern city life. In the beautiful and economically hopeless rural districts...
...these standard comic themes, he has tried to cash in on the superstition that anything said in Irish dialect is funny or fey, by making his scene the Irish town of Inish. But most of the cast have remarkably unfunny Irish accents, though their names are Irish. And Celt Robinson's lines have little Irish salt in them...
...otherwise he would never have sought the oblivion inevitable to his name. Probably he was associated with the Irish movement. This, we must grant you, is purely intuitional on our part but faith has often succeeded where cold reason has feared to tread. Ireland, the home of the mystic Celt, and the fearsome Gael has always lured the adventurous. H. A. Jones is unquestionably adventurous. To have written plays during the 19th and 20th centuries with the drama at its lowest ebb, takes courage. To be mistaken for Eugene O'Neill or confused with the man who wrote "The Modern...
...wave them slowly to & fro. This revel sets the pitch for the rest of the entertainment, which fulfills every standard-anatomical, luxurious, careless-that is associated with Producer Carroll. There is even a bath-tub interlude. Prominent among the personalities is Will Mahoney, a vaudeville Celt who clogs swiftly and loudly and takes terrific tumbles which are funny because he, as well as the audience, feels them coming long before they happen. Mr. Mahoney also smears part of his face with lampblack and burlesques Mammy songs in a way which should, but probably will not, eliminate them as legitimate amusement...