Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Master of the Chinese junk will be a Rhode Island Irishman named Thomas Francis ("Ted") Kilkenny, who served as a Junior Lieutenant in the Navy during the War, has sailed square riggers to Alaska, lost his money in a tuna fishing com pany off Southern California and has al ready had one yacht built in China. Last winter he served as captain of another expedition, whose object was to dig up treasure supposedly buried near the island of Dominica by a political opponent of the late President Gomez of Venezuela. They never found the treasure ; the ship lost its rudder...
...LONG as James Cagney needs a kind but rough and tought diamond to win the girl from Pat O'brien will probably stay at Warner Brothers and make more pictures . . . but Waraner finds him a reliable Irishman for other assignments too... and Warners rescued him from the oblivion he seemed headed for after his smash film debut in Howard Hughes' Front Page...
...huge-muscled Irishman who holds the world's wrestling championship, Danno O'Mahoney is not averse to defending his title against all fly-by-nights who wish to grapple. Last week at Holyoke, Mass, the champion stepped into the ring for a bout with an obscure challenger named Judson. Before the fun started, a wild-eyed French-Canadian, named Yvon Robert, who had persistently but unsuccessfully sought a match with O'Mahoney, was called into the ring, introduced to the customers. Suddenly Yvon Robert stripped off overcoat, sweater, trousers, tried to pin O'Mahoney then & there...
...personable, mercurial Irishman, Errol Flynn plays a swashbuckling role without swashbuckling. Last June he married Lily Damita, whom he calls "Sweets." When he finished school in Belfast, where his father is a biology professor, Errol Flynn got bit parts on the London stage, later went to Tahiti, bought a boat, fished for pearls, prospected for gold in New Guinea. Back in London he got stage parts in Othello, Another Language, The Constant Nymph. Tall (6 ft. 2 in.), brawny (180 lb.), he boxed on England's 1928 Olympic team...
...Acknowledging in a formal "bibliography" on the screen its debt to Carlyle and other authorities on the period, it goes far beyond the limitations of the Dickens story. Director Jack Conway, whom Selznick says he chose because Conway is "a master of melodrama, and a big, good-natured, sentimental Irishman," has photographed the storming of the Bastille as if it happened yesterday afternoon. The whole picture constitutes a record of one of history's most melodramatic moments told in an idiom equal to its subject, from a skeleton designed by a novelist of genius. Like all real...