Word: gilhooley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main commercial artery between East and West, the marvel of its time until the railroads came. With much nostalgic tenderness has Walter D. Edmonds (Rome Haul) written of the canal as it approached its decadence. Two able adapters, Marc Connelly (The Green Pastures) and Frank B. Elser (Mr. Gilhooley), have preserved for the stage every jot of humor, deviltry and brawling caste loyalty which Author Edmonds' boatmen had between covers...
...Irish Revolution. Since then he has roamed over half the world chopping logs, working in restaurants, printshops. He was employed in a Hartford tire factory when he began to write his first short stories, invariably waste-paper-basketed when they were finished. Widely-acclaimed books followed: The Informer, Mr. Gilhooley, The Assassin, The Mountain Tavern, The House of Gold, The Return of the Brute, Two Years...
When Mr. Murphy (Arthur Sinclair of Mr. Gilhooley) arrives in the U. S. things begin humming. He embarrasses his daughter-in-law by attacking the English butler with a shoe, consorts with the shanty Irish in the Patch. He is delighted to attend a bountiful wake where "they were carrying the food away in bags, whiskey flowed like water and everybody was praying like the Twelve Apostles." Mr. Murphy, whose voice another character describes as sounding "like His Holiness himself over the radio," succeeds in rounding up the Irish vote for his son, straightening out the affairs of his Americanized...
Miss Hayes did not attempt the Irish brogue when she appeared in her last show, the worthy but ill-starred Mr. Gilhooley. Again she deserves praise for not trying to put any English on her speech, although she is surrounded by a cast of excellent Britishers...
...GILHOOLEY-Two sterling performances by Helen Hayes and Arthur Sinclair in a solid play about life in Dublin...