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These days he makes his winter headquarters in Cambridge, travels a regular winter circuit of colleges, lecturing (fee: $200-$300) and reading his poems (in a voice Padraic Colum once likened to the barking of an eagle), spends a couple of months in Florida where he has a small house in Coral Gables, summers at his Vermont farm, which he shares with the Morrison family: Harvard Lecturer (and poet) Theodore Morrison* and his wife Kathleen. Both at Cambridge and Ripton, "K," serves as a sort of combined secretary, manager and friend, handles Frost's correspondence, types his poems, fends...
...cock), in recent years a Hollywood character actress (How Green Was My Valley); of a heart ailment; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Dublin-born, she became at 18 a member ("the youngest and humblest," she recalled) of the Irish National Theatre Society, a group of patriotic enthusiasts (including Padraic Colum, George Russell, William Butler Yeats) who founded the Abbey Theatre and sparked the Irish Revival. A cinemactress on & off since 1929 (Blackmail, the first British talking picture), she brightened dozens of U.S. and British films with her surehanded playing of buxom, broguey matrons...
...prolific mothers, a Mrs. Fitzgerald, paid impartial homage to statesmanship by calling her eighth Eamon, her ninth Winston; Mrs. Noonan named her 13th and 14th Pius and Pascal. A connoisseur of hospitals, Mrs. Noonan scorned the nurses who had attended her on the occasion of Padraic. "Nosey. They was that nosey that they turned out me locker for to clean it. Quare sort of cleaning they gev it. Examinin' me belongin's. Jest because I had put away a couple of biscuits and crunchies and some fish and chips me cousin got me and pickled pigs' trotters...
...train "right into the Irish Revival." Bernard Shaw, to be sure, was no longer walking Dublin's streets, and the face & figure of Oscar Wilde were almost forgotten ("Poor Oscar," said one old lady, "the English put him in gaol for something-I never did know what"). But Padraic Pearse and Douglas Hyde were still there, and James Joyce and W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge, Lady Gregory, George Moore, "AE," Lord Dunsany and Poet-Playwright Padraic Colum, whom Mary married...
Last week a little group of people got together in Manhattan in an atmosphere of unaccustomed awe. They were friends of James Joyce-Editor Eugene Jolas (transition) and his wife; Poet Padraic Colum and his wife; Robert Nathan Kastor, brother of Joyce's daughter-in-law; others. Fortnight before, a terse cable had announced that the author of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake was dead in Zurich. Joyce's friends were forming a committee to aid his widow, daughter...