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...curtain rose on the prologue-the girl's family coming to a crummy Brooklyn bar for clues of her whereabouts. The audience ceased squirming. The story flashed back three years upon the girl's family after they had pitched her out-a varied clan portrayed with crude, lusty humor. The audience forgot to fan themselves with their programs. Then, back at the bar again, the girl herself (Hilda Moses Simms) swished in. What stopped them first was her beauty. But what held them the next minute was her born stage presence, and as the scenes unfolded, the skill...
...Hatfields and McCoys (". . . they wuz reckless mountain boys . . .") were discovered by American Magazine to be feuding no more.† Rooming together and working at a Maryland war plant June Hatfield, great-granddaughter of Clan Leader "Devil Anse" Hatfield, and Susie McCoy, great-granddaughter of Clan Leader Randall McCoy. They visit each other's families without resort to arms, and June plans to marry a real McCoy some...
Always Vengeful, Sometimes Crazy. For the Fenwicks were "physically alive in a world in which they did not legally exist." One of their ancestors lost his head to King William for the political crime of losing his heart to King James. Parliament outlawed the rest of the clan. So disinherited Captain Jack Fenwick prowled the Pennsylvania frontier in 1764, soon became a legend. Tall, springy, savage, he became one of those Indian fighters who were as necessary to the colonists as corn. Captain Jack was always vengeful and sometimes a little crazy. For he remembered the night when...
...hate to do this to an old and trusted pal like Jimmy Cagney, but there's no getting around the fact that the initial cinematic attempt of the Cagney clan did little more than provide another likely victim for the fiendish English A section...
...Days of Anger covers the years from 1924 to 1927. They are three of the quietest years in the history of the battling O'Neill clan. There is almost none of the shillelagh-shaking, back-alley bickering, front-step gossip that gives Farrell novels their authentic Celtic charm. Reason: 1 ) age and death are taming and weeding out the O'Neills; 2) Danny is growing away from his feckless family, and Novelist Farrell is busy recording the long, long thoughts of a sensitive boy in Chicago's frustrating South Side. In this book Danny works...