Word: donne
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WHEN, some three or four years ago, Donn Byrne wrote "Messer Marco Polo", people said in effect "He has written his masterpiece; he will never be able to surpass this in delicacy or in colorfulness." Last year when "Hangman's House," appeared as a best seller in the stalls people were a bit surprised. Here was a book that not only rivaled "Messer Marco Polo" on its own ground, so to speak, but had something else beside--a haunting something, intangible but with a sweet tang to it, like the smell of lavender or the earth after a rain...
...First Century colors, passions and mysteries of the Near East are heaped in the pages like exotic scenery beside a straight white road, the story is a lean dark runner on the road, Saul of Tarsus coursing the world with his vision. It is the first non-love-story Donn Byrne has written, the attempt of a prose-poet in his late thirties to achieve an ascetic spiritual masterpiece. The success of the effort will be strongest felt by strangers to the earlier Byrne manner. People who remember and relish how Messer Marco Polo was drawn...
...BROTHER SAUL-Donn Byrne-Century...
...ship. Author Connell simply wants his hero to do those things and the hero does them with the utmost whimsical dispatch. There are some grand Irish moonlight and love talk in the last chapter too. Author Connell is a literary first cousin of both Funnyman Robert Benchley and Romancer Donn Byrne...
Hangman's House. Willard Mack, the dramatist, has two other hokum-weighted melodramas currently padding his Broadway income, The Noose and Lily Sue. Compared with them, this third, from Donn Byrne's novel, is a theatrically diseased mess. The story follows the lives of a young country gentleman, Dermot McDermot (Walter Abel) and a neighboring country gentleman's daughter, Connaught O'Brien (Katherine Alexander), both born to the grassy slopes of Ireland, in love with their land, their horses, their people and each other. She is forced to marry a villain who shoots her pet race...