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...framework of his philosophy is simple: Man, he says, is a product of his environment, and environment is "95% a shelter problem." Nine Chains to the Moon begins with a description of a modern city dweller, the unfortunate Mr. Murphy, jostled in the subway, unnerved by noise, threatened with peptic ulcer, bolting his meals, quarreling with his wife, depressed by the incessant pressure of city noises great and small, bewildered at the contrast between his efficient radio and his inefficient, cockroach-breeding house...
Stage Manager P. J. Carolan, in playing Fluther Good, presents an ordinary, ignorant, proud Dublin tenement-dweller with splendid vividness. M. J. Dolan is Uncle Peter Flynn, and amiable old man made the pathetic butt of a Socialist's humor. That socialist, played by Denis O'Dea, is reduced to pillaging and playing cards, nervously squatting on the floor of an attic, because he will not participate in a futile rebellion. Mareen Delany and May Craig are splendid as a pair of garrulous, short-tempered kind-hearted fishwives, the latter singing "Rule Brittania" throughout the uprising. All these people...
...doing some reading among ancient Irish legends a few years ago I found evidence of a much more ambitious lake-dweller. Two thousand or more men did she kill in a single day, it was claimed, the victims being members of the great Irish warrior band called the Fiana. This having a crippling effect on the ranks, their captain delegated the son of the King of Greece, who understood the language of all monsters, to make a bargain with her. For 50 horses or 50 cows a day she agreed to leave the Fiana in peace...
...Another illuminating observation is the discovery of the high cost of rent necessary to maintain the new houses in the Administration's "slum clearance" program. As much as $7 per month per room with the government carrying almost half of the construction cost is required to give the city-dweller minimum comfort according to the American standard of living...
Collaborators are somewhat in the position of two men trying to see the same object through a single pair of binoculars: when it is in focus for one, it is blurred and out of perspective to the other. Two years ago two British writers, one a Glasgow slum dweller, the other a London journalist, turned their imaginative spyglass on the squalid, violent Gorbols section of Glasgow, on the south bank of the Clyde. Last week they reported on what they had seen, in a strange uneven book that suggested they could not quite agree on their findings. They saw horrors...