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...volume of English dialogue over an Italian tongue. After the old-fashioned pattern of all such plots, Lombardi must experience business failure and heart-jolt before he awakens to the fact that it is not the dazzling beauty of Phyllis Manning that he loves but the demure companionship of Norah Blake. A fashion show helps the entertainment, as does the popular admission charge. But most of the fun is supplied by Actor Carrillo himself, as Lombardi, whose spirit, dammed by linguistic obstructions of all kinds, nevertheless overflows everything in an indomitable, spluttering, blustering fuss...
...kill his brother years ago; Ellen Halpin, his sister-in-law, is afraid her daughter wants to marry Christie--afraid not because of factional hate, but because Christie was her own childhood sweetheart. After many complications provided by Padna Collins, an Irish miser everything ends happily. Ellen marries Christie, Norah explains that she had long ago decided to become a nun, Corny Shakes hands with Christie, and the whole lot sails for Australia leaving Padna behind alone...
...from bright Norah one approving Smile...
...would seem that the game ended one goal to nothing in the favor of the Soards, making them the new Champions of Ireland. Afterwards Terence and Norah got married and lived happily ever after, and so did Flora and Daniel...
...Norah's Excuse" is a life-like reminiscence told in the Irish dialect. No blame certainly attaches to a man who is not a master of dialect and who does not pretend to be. It is the writer who attempts to use a dialect which he has not thoroughly mastered who lays himself open to just criticism. And assuredly the substitution of "i" for "e," and the occasional use of "me" for "my" do not constitute good Irish dialect, - the author of "Norah's Excuse" to the contrary, not withstanding. A study of the masters of the Irish dialect...