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...Poacher's Daughter (Show Corp. of America), being a rustic Irish comedy, is a pack of lies; white lies, green lies, slick, sly, funny lies, and every one as harmless as the tines of a well-sharpened hayfork. Adapted from George Shiels's play called The New Gossoon,* the film is lifted off the green sod by the main strength of its cast: the Abbey Theater players and their American guest, Actress Julie Harris...
Robinson's The Far-off Hills, George Shiel's The New Gossoon, John Millington Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, will be among the Abbey offerings to be seen this winter in Washington, Cincinnati, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver. Denver, Salt Lake City, Boston...
...Gossoon, by George Shiels (new). A young rascal flies about the country on a motorcycle, drinks, bets on the dogs, chases after every petticoat he sees, is finally reformed by a shrewd colleen with more cunning than her elders...
...sail boat, out to Hangman's Island, where his father doted on the smelt-fishing. At twelve he was racing his own little boats and, soon after, sailing with Capt. Crocker on the sloop Shadow. Then came his string of "oo" boats-Papoose (1887), Babboon (35-footer), Gossoon (40-footer) in which he beat Capt. Charles Barr in the Scotch cutter Minerva; Harpoon (1892) in which he won the Goelet Cup at Newport; and the Rooster and Crooner. He is a stern skipper; his own son calls him "Mister Adams" on shipboard...
Globe - The Gossoon...