Word: dublin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Comedy of Good and Evil" was produced in London in 1924. It has since been produced with succes at the famous Abbey Theatre in Dublin, but the showing here will be the American premiere of the play. Mr. Hughes is already known in this country for his novel "High Wind in Jamaica," also known as "The Innocent Voyage...
Visiting Washington last week, the Right Honorable Alderman Alfred Byrne, Lord Mayor of Dublin, sat down to listen to a radio broadcast of the 97th running of the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree. A reporter asked him who he thought would win. Lord Mayor Byrne called for pencil & pad, puffed out his cheeks, wrote down his selections: 1, Reynoldstown; 2, Blue Prince; 3, Thomond II. The announcer said: "They...
That the Lord Mayor of Dublin should have been asked to pick the winners of the Grand National last week was less inappropriate than it seemed. Irish steeplechasers are the world's best. The race decides one of the three huge annual lotteries of the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes Committee. Last week while the race was being run, hundreds of optimistic individuals who had bought sweepstakes tickets sat glued to their radios in the U. S. If the Lord Mayor's prediction, of which they were entirely unaware, came true, it meant $143,000 to a Bronx housewife...
...five years ago and made possible as a tribute to Princeton's sport by a group of Princeton sportsmen headed by Henry Fairfield Osborn Jr., the canvases were the work of shy, spectacled William Yarrow, 43, no Princetonian, but a well-known portraitist who divided his time between Dublin, N. H. and Florence, Italy to compose the triumphs of the Orange & the Black. Big, bold figures drawn from undergraduate models with technical advice from coaches and team captains, Artist Yarrow's works depict a relay race in which Princeton has the inside track and a Yale runner...
...Congregationalists and Episcopalians own Boston, but the Irish Catholics run it. Ordinarily a man named O'Casey, be he a saloonkeeper, a fisticuffer or a bicycle racer, might expect a warm Irish welcome in the capital of Massachusetts. Yet last week Sean (pronounced Shawn) O'Casey of Dublin found to his dismay that Boston would have none of his play, Within the Gates (TIME...