Word: erine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yoslie Kalb is a sad story about a Jewish student (Horace Braham) who is seduced by the girl (Erin O'Brien-Moore ) whom a rabbi (Fritz Leiber) wants to marry and spends 15 years wandering about as Joe The Fool ("Yoshe Kalb"). Critics admired bits like a graveyard dance by an idiot girl and a candlelit trial of Joe The Fool for bigamy before 70 rabbis but found the rest dull, pompous, obscurely symbolical. After three nights. Mr. Frohman closed his first production in 22 years with an old man's sigh of dismay...
Shawn O'Phelan, as even those who know no Irish may pronounce Sean OTaolain's Gaelic name, is a new star in Erin's sky. Known to only a few U. S. readers by a book of short stories (Midsummer Night Madness), he should soon, if A Nest of Simple Folk gets the audience it deserves, be visible throughout at least one hemisphere. This big novel of classic Irish types is set firmly in the oldfashioned, solid novel tradition, earmarked neither by the violent realism nor the violent mysticism of modern Ireland's civil...
...Butler Yeats - Macmillan ($2.50). If a Dublin Irishman in the course of conversation raises his right hand as if to take an oath, his wise friends know that he is about to quote from William Butler Yeats. Only Irishman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Poet Yeats is Erin's uncrowned laureate as well as its most respected living writer. But even poets grow old. Though these latest poems may well seem more satisfactory to him than the wilder mystical verse of his youth, only devoted friends and a few new admirers will follow him up his winding...
Translation: "Perhaps you thought it clever to write such a remark, or perhaps not. However, it is only TIME'S opinion, and it is certain that TIME does not understand the aristocratic tongue of Erin...
...Must Fight does not attempt to solve the insoluble. In its quiet, ironic way it is stirring. The able cast contains Erin O'Brien-Moore as the sweetheart. Douglass Montgomery as the son, Alma Kruger as caustic old Grandmother Seward...