Word: donne
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Mrs. Dorothy Cadogan Byrne, relict of Author Donn Byrne (The Wind Bloweth, Messer Marco Polo), and M. M. Willoughby Craig, Irish sportsman; at Oban, Scotland...
...Silver Tassie. The Irish Theatre, [nc., whose roster includes Scans, Culinans, MacGuffins, Ennises, Miceals, Patricks, Liams and Unas, whose sponsors include Llewellyn Powys, Donn Byrne's widow and Otto Hermann Kahn, have taken over the tiny but gallant Greenwich Village Theatre where for their first production of the season they present a haunting, chaotic play by famed Sean 0'Casey of Dublin, author of Juno and the Paycock (TIME, March 29, 1926). Through its symbolism and its brogue you discern the simple story of an Irish footballer who went to war and returned paralyzed below the waist...
FIELD OF HONOR-Donn Byrne-Century ($2.50). That politics could sever a young married couple is possible but not probable in our times. The late Donn Byrne, like most romanticists, was driven into the past to make his thesis believable. Mr. and Mrs. Garrett McCarthy Dillon lived in the Ireland of Napoleon's day. When Garrett announced that duty called him to the aid of England's Lord Castlereagh, Mrs. Dillon declared that she would have none of her husband if he insisted on serving a man who had caused her pro-Irish uncle to be hanged. Needless...
...build a backfield around a lone veteran called Kumpf . . . Dartmouth would have last year's stars, Captain Black and Alton Marsters . . . Roper of Princeton, who is at his best with raw beef, had a squad with many lettermen . . . three Harvard backs were severely injured in practice . . Captain Donn Greenshields of Penn State was in bed, recovering from pneumonia . . . Knute Rockne, famed Notre Dame coach and journalist, and Coach Pat Page of Indiana, bringing to their rough game a quality hitherto prized only in tea-shops and New England villages, began talking about "football atmosphere" ... In the "Western Conference...
With true Irish love for the brave gesture, Donn Byrne rode debonairly to his death (TIME, July 2). Half the world still mourns the creator of magical prose (Messer Marco Polo, Blind Raftery) and the other half, the conjuror of sentimental melodrama (Hangman's House, Crusade...