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...Walsh, Critic Ernest Boyd, Sportsman Aiden Roark (of the British International Polo team), Actor Dudley Digges, the widow of Author Donn Byrne (now Mrs. M. M. Willoughby Craig) and Socialites like Mrs. Walter A. Burke, Mrs. Charles Gary Rumsey. By the time the Museum opened last week, several non-Hibernian names often connected with Culture in New York had been added to the list of sponsors and patrons-Otto Hermann Kahn, William Ziegler, Percy Rivington Pyne Jr., Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock Sr. and Jr., Publisher Condé Nast's daughter Natica...
Stars of the opening exhibit were Sir John Lavery and the late Sir William Orpen, two great Irishmen whose memberships in London's Royal Academy have dimmed the fact that they belong also to the Royal Hibernian Academy which, chartered in 1823, now has 24 members and a gallery on Grafton Street, Dublin. Sir John and Sir William were eagerly reclaimed for Ireland last week. One of the three Orpens on view was a severe portrait of Solomon R. Guggenheim. Other paintings on view were a seascape by the late Nathaniel Hone, last survivor of the Barbizon School...
...same method twice. He is voracious. Life, and life as portrayed in the theatre, is a business that must be attacked on many fronts. The only thing that serious Mr. O'Neill can inevitably be counted on to avoid is a touch of humor. Like his fellow-Hibernian Synge, he loves "all that is salt in the mouth, all that is rough to the hand, all that heightens the emotions by contest, all that stings into life the sense of tragedy...
Dublin reported that the strange telegram had been put in by a person signing the name of J. Hartigan, giving the Hibernian Hotel as his address. At the hotel no J. Hartigan was known, but a Dublin chemist reported that he had sold some strychnine eight weeks earlier to a man whose description tallied with what the telegraph clerk could remember of J. Hartigan...
...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 descendants, getting his pretty granddaughter married to a boy of good Hibernian stock...