Word: mattes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tree (by Richard Maibaum; Ira Marion, producer). Ed and Denny and Matt are all in love with the same girl in a rural district "north of the Mason-Dixon Line." A happy blackamoor named David is found dancing and singing for the girl. He is warned to stay away from her. The geography of The Tree, however, must not mislead you. There is a lynching. Victim is the Negro after the girl is found raped and slain. At this point this earnest play turns allegorical...
Back to earth comes David, not as David, to be sure, but as David's pious uncle. Since both parts are taken by the same actor (Thomas Mosely), the disguise is thin. He appears to Matt and Denny, members of the lynching mob, forgives them for their crime, pleads for a better understanding between the races. This action so moves Matt, the real murderer of the girl, that he and Denny decide that he (Matt) should be hanged. This is finally done with the same old rope in the same old tree where the Negro died...
...this Matt Talbot...
Father Talbot, an associate editor of America (Jesuit weekly), knew that the Talbots are an ancient and illustrious Irish family, with both Roman Catholic and Protestant branches. But he had not heard of Matt Talbot. He made inquiries. To his amazement he discovered that Matt Talbot, a laborer, dead less than a year, had already acquired a reputation for almost unearthly piety. His biography by Sir Joseph Aloysius Glynn had been translated into a dozen languages, sold 60,000 copies. Known first to Dublin, then to the Catholic world, Matt Talbot's life was increasingly publicized until last week...
...Trinity Sunday, 1925, Matt Talbot fell dead in Granby Lane, Dublin, in the 70th year of his life. His emaciated body was uncovered. Around it, imbedded in his flesh, was a rusty cart chain. On his arms and legs were chains and ropes. He had worn them secretly, continually for twelve years, save in 1923 when, taken ill, he was careful to remove them before going to a hospital. Said Father Talbot, reporting the event in America a year later: "There are no accidents in this universe. Matt Talbot's sudden heart attack and his instantaneous death were Divinely...