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STRAIGHT PLAYS: Broadway is already battening its booby hatches for the arrival from London of The Hostage, not so much because of the nature of the play (a young British soldier is held captive in a Dublin brothel) but because of the playwright, who promises his presence. At a London performance of his show, Author Brendan Behan terrorized the English audience with extempore outbursts, matched booze for boos, refused to heed the actors when they faced him across the footlights and thundered: ''Shut up" (Sept. 20). An adaptation of Novelist John Hersey's The Wall (about Nazi...
...nightclubs), theater buffs (1960 is the year for the Oberammergau Passion Play), stamp collectors (London's International Exhibition in July), golfers (following the tournaments and playing the best courses in the British Isles). For James Joyce fans, it is even possible to be conducted on a lurch through Dublin in the steps of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, taking two hours or two days, depending on how many "balls of malt" (Irish whisky) are downed en route. Touring cost for two: $6 in a horse-drawn Dublin cab. For $2.50 from West Berlin there is a guaranteed-safe-return...
...quickly Aly took hold, and "how conscientious he was about his job." But the job still left him time to check up on his ten stud farms and stables in France and Ireland, and for visits to his Paris mansion in the Bois de Boulogne, his manor house outside Dublin, his Riviera chateau and his villas in Normandy and Switzerland. His constant companion was a slim, tawny-haired French model known professionally as Bettina...
Mountains of Mourne. Like many a Sassenach before him, Blaydon lands in Ireland expecting an easy conquest. After all, he is tall, dark-eyed, handsome, as capriciously intelligent and nearly as wordy as the Irish themselves. Descending on Dublin in the mid-1950s to study medi cine, Blaydon does battle - on the beaches, in the fields, in the streets - with a suc cession of colleens. Beautiful Theresa has a voice as misty as the mountains of Mourne, and a heart hard enough to splinter Cuchulainn's sword. After another fruitless try, with a girl named Oonagh, Blaydon comes...
...baffling is upper-crust Palgrave Chamberlyn-Ffynch, who seems only a silly-ass clubman but whose character proves to have as many layers as an onion; hamhanded Jack Kerruish could not be anything more than an amiable athlete-or could he? Coves & Cobbles. Blaydon's five years in Dublin end in a vast betrayal. Without a word, devious Dymphna drops him and marries someone else; trusted Mike Groarke not only sells Blaydon out but beats him and sneers, "You amused me when you didn't sicken me." Blaydon cannot even deal with a great omadhaun like Kerruish...