Word: pats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maid" as all good little playgoers know, has awarded the golden pat-on-the-back of the Pulitzer Prize Committee and the reverberations filled Times Square. Now that the customary hue and cry has died out, it is possible to point out that, no matter what the worth of its claim to the prize may be, "The Old Maid" is an absorbing, soundly constructed and beautifully worded drama which has been lifted to the top of the list by the incomparably excellent acting of Judith Anderson and Helen Mencken...
...Family Tree (RKO) is the one about Pat and Mike. Pat (James Barton) is Patrick Murphy, an aging Dublin saloonkeeper who, arriving in the U. S. to discover what has become of his son Charles, finds him running for Mayor of Central City, Iowa, and married to a social-climbing snob who has changed their name to Murfree. Mike Donovan (Addison Randall) is Charles Murfree's campaign publicity manager. It is Mike who becomes attached to Murfree's daughter Elinor but it is Pat who horrifies Mrs. Murfree by his frowzy appearance, dances an authentic jig at a political rally...
...occurred was in Manhattan's City Hall Place, now called Cardinal Place. The year was 1867. Orphaned early, the Cardinal remembers of his Irish immigrant mother only that she once carried him through a maze of horse cabs across Broadway. Because his Aunt Ellen thought, "He got the callin'," Pat Hayes was sent to a school, later a college, run by the Christian Brothers. There he made friends with a younger, livelier lad named George Mundelein. Indifferent at games, Hayes was a brilliant student whose businesslike manner got him the highest undergraduate honor, the Moderatorship of the Sacred Heart Society...
Such smart detective work so impressed Coroner E. T. Oram that he encouraged police to hold an Irishman named Brady on a charge of murder because Smith was last seen when he left his home to go fishing with Brady. "Keep your mouth shut!" lawyers advised, and Pat Brady set his Irish jaw. Last week before the Commonwealth's High Court Brady's counsel cited a basic maxim of Anglo-Saxon law, argued: "There can be no inquest, much less a trial for murder, without a corpus delicti and one tattooed human arm disgorged by a shark...
Accepting this plea, the Court freed Pat, left Australia's great "Shark Murder" stymied. "For all they can prove," declared Pat's friends, "James Smith may still be alive. What if his arm was cut off and thrown to a shark? That doesn't show he's dead...