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...GREEN FOOL-Patrick Kavanagh -Harper...
...other hand, The Green Fool, the autobiography of a sort of Irish Jesse Stuart, is one of the most plum-Irish volumes in a month of Sundays. Born in Mucker (corrupted Gaelic for "good pig-raising place"), County Monaghan, Patrick Kavanagh was "a bit of a lazybones, a bit of a liar and a bit of a rogue." He quit school at 12, worked on farms, joined the Irish Republican Army, learned poaching and desultory banditry, went to all the weddings, wakes, funerals, became highly learned in Mucker legend, superstitions, gossip, cunning...
...Italian grammar by Longfellow, printed in 1832, is the first published work of that poet. The exhibition includes other of his early productions, among them "Outre-Mer" printed in 1835, "Hyperion" in 1839, "Evangeline" in 1847, and "Kavanagh...
...remainder of the program includes the Theodore Bekefi Dancers in "The Life of the Dance." A large company supports Mr. Bekefi and Miss Robinson who are outstanding. Staer Kavanagh, Australian juggler, has little new to offer while Dooley and Morton, like their immediate predecessors, Ethel Davis and Mr. Norworth should stick to the field of musical comedy rather than venturing into that of vaudeville...
Headliner last week at the Keith Vaudeville Palace, Manhattan, was Emma Calvé, billed "The Beloved Diva" and "The World's Greatest Carmen," serving on the same bill with such as Stan Kavanagh (Austrian juggler), Naughton & Gold (funny ones), B. A. Rolfe (Mighty Melodist of the Trumpet), Frank Evers & Greta (tightrope dancers...