Word: crocks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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RORY AND BRAN-Lord Dunsany-Putnam ($2.50). Adventures of a half-wit youth and his dog in the pixillated Irish countryside; in the same vein but not the same class as James Stephens' Crock of GoId...
...black sleeveless tunic, an absurd clerical hat. Her pantomime was always effective. She danced occasionally but she was just as communicative standing still. She spoke with her eyes, her wide childish grin, her expressive hands. European critics have likened her to Charlie Chaplin and the great Swiss Clown Crock. Though the comparison scarcely seemed warranted last week, she did prove herself a rare entertainer...
Short-bodied, long-faced Irish Poet James Stephens (The Crock of Gold) lectured at the University of California. Excerpts: "I know when I have a poem the same way a hen knows she has an egg. . . . All perfect ladies are or should be cats; if they aren't they have lost their femininity and are partly male...
...Crock of Gold...
When The Return of the Hero was published in 1923 under the pseudonym "Michael Ireland," curious readers wondered who the author was, decided it must be James Stephens (The Crock of Gold, Etched in Moonlight). Such flattery persuaded the late Darrell Figgis to reveal his identity. A Sinn Féiner, he used to run guns into Ireland from Germany for the Irish Volunteers, was arrested in 1916 following the Dublin insurrection, became a member of the Dáil Eireann (Irish Free State Parliament). The year after The Return of the Hero was published, his wife shot herself...