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...cock), in recent years a Hollywood character actress (How Green Was My Valley); of a heart ailment; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Dublin-born, she became at 18 a member ("the youngest and humblest," she recalled) of the Irish National Theatre Society, a group of patriotic enthusiasts (including Padraic Colum, George Russell, William Butler Yeats) who founded the Abbey Theatre and sparked the Irish Revival. A cinemactress on & off since 1929 (Blackmail, the first British talking picture), she brightened dozens of U.S. and British films with her surehanded playing of buxom, broguey matrons...
...Poor Oscar," said one old lady, "the English put him in gaol for something-I never did know what"). But Padraic Pearse and Douglas Hyde were still there, and James Joyce and W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge, Lady Gregory, George Moore, "AE," Lord Dunsany and Poet-Playwright Padraic Colum, whom Mary married...
Life and the Dream mixes warm, fond Irish reminiscence with some pretty cranky anecdotes about life & letters in the U.S., to which the Colums emigrated in 1914. Mrs. Colum is still angry at people who "misunderstood" her critical volume, From These Roots (1937). She is none too sure of the merits of various others, from Amy Lowell and Hart Crane to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt...
Yeats is Mrs. Colum's great admiration: "the most remarkable person I have ever known-by many, many degrees...
Deep down he was "a very lonely man who paid dearly .for his fame," says Mrs. Colum. "His voice would be so charged with emotion, so full of ... yearning for a life he could never have . . . that one saw there were whole regions of his mind that could only be expressed in music. . . . He had no such large voice as John McCormack, who had won the competition they both had entered.* But for emotional expressiveness Joyce was the most effective singer I have ever heard...