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...most part the production's lifelessness is all-pervading. Several actors have been more appropriately cast than the rest and shine by comparison--Leland Moss as Fluther, Kenny McBain as the Covey, Beatrice Paipert as Bessie Burgess, even Jennifer Crier as Nora. But there are no exciting performances of any size simply because the parts, good and bad, are so deeply rooted in the whole, which...
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...
Jack is in the foolhardy garrison that holds it for three days against British artillery fire. Meanwhile, life goes on even more squalidly than usual among the lodgers in the Clitheroe rooming house. When rebellion degenerates into looting of Dublin stores, Fluther (Barry Fitzgerald), the barfly, takes advantage of his opportunity to erase his tab at a pub, fill his pockets with bottles. Bessie Burgess (Eileen Crowe) makes off with a baby carriage, a bird cage and an armful of finery...
...when first presented in Dublin, this version of The Plough and the Stars, spoken in brogue that is not too thick for intelligibility, offers the most illuminating glimpse of Ireland's fight for home rule thus far included in Hollywood's dossier on the subject. Good shot: Fluther's technique in a barroom fight- fantastically complicated footwork, accompanied by no blows. A Doctor's Diary (Paramount) is a savagely derisive expose of conventional medical ethics, fairly screaming the sort of hospital anecdotes which upright members of the profession refrain even "from whispering. Its casting...