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...influence of Robinson, among the lesser-known Irish writers on the Irish stage is hard to estimate, Kelleher said. "He always wrote of the living people," Kelleher declared, "without sacrificing his power of creating personalities on the altar of political or propagandist nationalism...
...Rajputana. Using the rhythmic changes of the seasons and the monotonous ups-&-downs of peasant life as her shoehorn, Author Wernher deftly eases into her book not only such basic and familiar Indian matters as Hindu segregation, the exactly graded structure of the family, but also details about lesser-known rites of Hindu worship, the involved ceremonies that accompany the simplest acts of daily life. Author Wernher, raised in India, came to the U.S. in 1943, has also published a "diary" of Indian life (My Indian Family...
...thriller which enjoyed a successful tour some four years ago and subsequently emerged as a Hollywood epic ("Gaslight") in 1944. If Francis Lederer's performance in the "name" role falls short of the standard set by Vincent Price in the original production, there is a compensating performance by a lesser-known member of the cast to preserve something of the essence of Hamilton's work...
...gadgets, toys, puzzles in mathematics; by day he would take a daily walk of 20 miles at top speed. At best, he would find release from "the sin of thinking for himself about religion" by turning his worries into innocent literary fantasies - such as the remarkable passage from his lesser-known children's book, Sylvie and Bruno...
Monty's father, an Anglican bishop, was a North of Ireland man, but Monty himself was born Nov. 17, 1887 in south London. He spent his early boyhood in Tasmania, went to Saint Paul's, one of the lesser-known English public schools, thence to Sandhurst...