Word: hooley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Chancellor John ("Chauncey") Olcott, 71, Irish tenor; after eleven years of pernicious anemia; in Monte Carlo. Introduced as a singer by the late R. M. Hooley, he played his first dramatic role as a Spanish youth in Pepita or the Girl with the Glass Eyes at the old Union Square Theatre in Manhattan. After singing in Gilbert & Sullivan's Pinafore and Mikado, he studied in London, emerged the professional Irishman of "Mother Machree," "My Wild Irish Rose," "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling," "A Little Bit of Heaven...
...love with a man who had jilted her. When Mr. Gilhooley found that she was thinking of leaving him, he raged, wheedled, offered to marry her. Finally the girl- Helen ("Act of God"-) Hayes - did leave him; but she came back. And when she came back Mr. Gil hooley strangled her and shot himself. Both principals give an excellent ac count of themselves: Arthur Sinclair, strong, decent, generous; Miss Hayes, frustrated, impetuous, affecting. Many a Gaelophile had an evening's entertainment just listening to a lot of good Irish ac cents. Happily, Miss Hayes did not at tempt...