Word: leprechauns
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...gets out of hand because the main character is Dermot Trellis, described as "an eccentric author," a publican who has "conceived the project of writing a salutary book on the consequences that follow wrongdoing." Trellis' characters, in turn, include Fergus MacPhellimey, a "pooka," which is some sort of leprechaun, and John Furriskey, whose task it is to attack women and behave at all times in an "indecent manner...
Quincy House has not only taken on this odd melange but battled against a leprechaun-sized stage and an orchestra with two three brass instruments for every stringed one. It acquits itself honorably, but it does not quite...
...even with a more responsive audience, problems will remain. George Rosen is always droll as Finian, a dotty old Irishman who has stolen a crock of leprechaun gold and buried it near Fort Knox, an area he believes conducive to spontaneous generations. Carolyn Firth, his ready, nubile, and willing daughter, is a pretty girl and a charming actress. But neither of them seems quite at home in a brogue; Rosen at times simply deserts Belfast for Brooklyn. And Miss Firth, for all the attractiveness of her voice, shares with many of the other singers a tendency toward inaudibility...
HALF A SIXPENCE glints with bright song and dance, and Tommy Steele glows with the grin of an English leprechaun in an exuberant musical...
HALF A SIXPENCE glints with bright song and dance, and Tommy Steele glows with the grin of an English leprechaun in an exuberant musical...