Word: dubliners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case of the "Dublin Cycle" which was given last year, this miracle play is having its first presentations in the United States. The original was very long and boisterous, and the version used by the Dramatic Club for this presentation is much shortened. Parts from two different plays have been incorporated into this translation and the play as it will be performed consists of nine scenes...
...case of the "Dublin Cycle" which was given last year this miracle play is being performed for the first time in the United States. The original was very long and boisterous and the version used by the Dramatic Club for this presentation is much shortened. Parts from two different plays have been incorporated into this translation and the play as it will be performed tonight consists of nine scenes. It was first composed in the late fifteenth century and is representative of a popularized type of miracle play, containing the conventional nativity group, angels, devils, and shepherds. Gregorian chants...
...squirming awe the Solicitors Apprentices of Dublin sat on hard benches for 75 minutes last week, heard all about "Americans" from Honorable Hugh Kennedy, First Chief Justice of the Irish Free State. Mr. Kennedy lately toured the U. S. as the guest of the American Bar Association, indulging simultaneously his passion for antiques...
...both in public and in private, possessed rare culture and charm. I was impressed by the refinement of American home life. I was particularly impressed by the respect which the men show their womenfolk. The Americans are a fine people. Let no one tell you differently." Since September, Dublin playgoers have been learning from Ever the Twain, a play by Irish Dramatist Lennox Robinson, that the U. S. is a land of gumchewers, gunmen, gigolos, gin mills. "Remembering what I saw with my own eyes," boomed Chief Justice Kennedy, "I can only describe Robinson's play as a lampoon...
This production will be directed by G. W. Harrington '30, who also had charge of the "Dublin Cycle" last year Tryouts for the cast of the production will be announced later...