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...Irish Nationalist leader removes from British politics one of its oldest and most prominent figures. A member of Parliament since 1881, Redmond became the leader of the Nationalist party in 1900 after reorganizing its elements which had been scattered by Parnell's downfall ten years earlier. An Irishman, possessed of the peculiar Irish genius for oratory and parliamentary fencing, he compelled and retained for the Nationalist minority the alliance with the great Liberal party which forced the passage of the Home Rule bill a few months before the outbreak of the war. Redmond was deprived of the consummation...
...trifles a man of Mr. Drew's talented staginess can produce a characterization. Next to the star, Miss Alison Skipworth, as a fat and vulgar Lady Clavering, is most worth seeing. Mr. Charles Kennedy was exceedingly funny as one of those preposterous stage Irishmen "made in England." The real Irishman is something so appalingly different from the invention that sometimes he has to be stood up against a wall and shot. CUTHBERT WRIGHT...
...side of the Atlantic to the training camps of England, and thence to Gallipoli. We see the troops land and watch them fighting in the trenches and in "no-man's land," or trying to rest in their dug-outs. We grow to admire the British Tommy--Scotchman, Irishman, Newfoundlander, Canadian, Anzac or city-bred Londoner; and to respect the heathen Turk, his honest enemy...
...spring of 1909, four one-act plays were staged: "Death and the Dicers," by F. Schenck '09; "Five in the Morning," and "The Horse Thieves" by H. Hagedorn '07 and "The Heart of the Irishman," by L. Hatch...
...been devoted largely to moving pictures of the better class. The management is now planning to give an original one-act play every week or fortnight, and intends, in the course of the spring and summer, to produce plays by Leonard Hatch '05, author of "The Heart of the Irishman," given by the Harvard Dramatic Club last May; David Carb '09, Instructor in English at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Paul Mariett '11. It is understood that the plan has the cordial support of Professor George P. Baker...