Word: flynn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crumb tickled the stout palate of the U. S. public until the Committee found the names of two of Wall Street's biggest bear speculators, of an ex-heavyweight champion, of the right-hand man of a famed promoter all nicely linked together with Edward J. Flynn who, next to Boss Farley, was henchman since times far back...
Then Senator Vandenberg asked a casual question: "You know Mr. Flynn of New York...
...Flynn (libretto, lyrics & music by Brian Hooker, Russell Janney & Franklin Hauser; Russell Janney, producer) is the first musical romance to reach Broadway since last winter's Richard of Bordeaux (TIME, Feb. 26). A great many people liked Richard of Bordeaux for its color and pageantry. They should find The O'Flynn even more to their taste. A sword-&-cloaker of the first water, nimbly directed, eminently tuneful, scenically as magnificent as Hollywood's best, The O'Flynn tells a full-blooded tale about the battles between William of Orange and James II in Ireland...
...Flynn, ably impersonated by swashbuckling George Houston, does not care particularly which side he fights on so long as he is in the fray. His worldly assets, he believes, are his Castle Famine and a motley handful of loyal bog-trotters. There are tales that the castle is the hiding place of treasure, but he does not take them seriously until a credulous banker offers to lend him money on the security of the unfound trove. Meantime. The O'Flynn has enlisted on the side of William of Orange, only to fall in love with a noblewoman. Lady Benedette Mount...
Follows a duel in the best early Fairbanks manner between O'Flynn and his sweetheart's treacherous fiance, the siege of Orange's Castle Knockmore, discovery of the fabled treasure in Castle Famine. Best tunes in the lush musical accompaniment to all these romantic doings: "Child of Erin," "The Throb of My Heart," "Lovely Lady...