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...Britisher, given to protracted orgies, and his color less, passionate wife. The Britisher fled during a drunken spell, joined the circus in which Phoebe was featured. One guessed at the ending. In his better moments (The Chicken-Wagon Family) Author Benefield has been compared with Barrie, Morley, Donn Byrne...
...Died. Donn Byrne (Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne), 39, mystic Irish author (Messer Marco Polo, Blind Raftery, Hangman's House, etc.), self-styled "last of the traditional Irish story tellers"; in an automobile accident, at Bandon, County Cork...
Hangman's House. An authentic Irish flavor, a grand horse race and a Citizen Hogan (Victor McLaglen) who says: "You'll have to excuse me for a while, as I've got a man to kill," are refreshing in the film version of Donn Byrne's fine novel...
...CRUSADE-Donn Byrne-Little Brown ($2). There is almost no getting around it, and Donn Byrnians will have to survive it as best they can-their favorite author has rewritten The Sheik with reverse English. Perhaps, though, the reverse is Irish enough to keep the faithful in the fold...
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...