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...hull, rigging and spars sheathed in ice, the schooner Mary E. O'Hara, of Boston, turned tail to the fishing banks last week and headed for home. On a dark night, in near-zero weather, she thrashed into Boston Channel. A numbed lookout in the bow suddenly shouted. Frantically the helmsman tried to put her over, but she was sluggish with ice, heavy with 50,000 lb. of fish in her hold. Next moment the Mary E. O'Hara crashed into a barge anchored off Finn's Ledge...
When the Mary E. O'Hara came to rest on the bottom, twelve feet of her mainmast, five feet of her foremast stuck out above the waves. There on slippery, ice-covered halyards clung more than a dozen of her crew. Some of them were dressed only in the underwear in which they had slept. It was about 3:30 of a January morning...
Turner's paintings include work done in France, Great Britain, Italy, and Switzerland. He studied under George Demetrios and Eliot O'Hara...
Perhaps John O'Hara (Appointment in Samarra) could polish off the script. But though characters in O'Hara novels sometimes refer to each other as "Fitzgerald characters," O'Hara is more a Hemingway derivative, belongs less among the sad young men than with U. S. Literature's dead-end kids : James M. Cain ( The Postman Always Rings Twice), Horace McCoy (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?), pseudonymous Richard Hallas (real name Eric Knight...
...play in O'Hara's slangy dialogue is gamy, funny, simple in outline: Joey is taken up by a Chicago society woman even harder than he is. She keeps him until she is tired of him, then gets the heel out of there. Meanwhile he has lost the affections of a nice young ingenue. Somehow the show performs the feat of making Joey an almost sympathetic character. As Joey, lean, dark Gene Kelly has a treacherous Irish charm, a sweet Irish tenor, a catlike dancing grace that makes vice almost as appealing as virtue. This impression is confirmed...