Word: ploughed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real furore came when it was President Conant's turn to hand in a report. Seldom have an innocent author's words been so maligned. A group of comparatively intelligent figures on the local scene called it a deliberate attempt "to plough under human brains." One or two of our contemporaries in Middle Western colleges thought it was a proposal to slay the first-born in every family. This was not just what the President meant, but he should have made himself clear...
Sean O'Casey's "The Plough and the Stars," to be performed the rest of this week, concludes the engagement of the Abbey Theatre Players in Boston. Strongly resembling "June and the Paycock," it is a still grimmer indictment of war, a more tragic display of how human values are broken and lost when men die for a cause. The setting is the Easter uprising of 1916. It is again a woman who tries to salvage something from the torrent of destruction, but this time she falls and ends in madness. No one wins anything, in fact, except that...
Opening with Katie Roche by Teresa Deevy, a U. S. premiere, the Manhattan repertory includes standbys like O'Casey's Plough and the Stars, Juno and the Paycock, Synge's Playboy of the Western World, new items like Cormac O'Daly's The Silver Jubilee, George Shiels's The Passing...
Ourselves Alone (Gaumont-British), whose title is a free translation of the Gaelic Sinn Fein, differs from Hollywood investigations of that Irish revolutionary group by approaching it from a temperate and somewhat more realistic British viewpoint. Not entirely neglecting the poetry of The Informer and The Plough And The Stars or the star-crossed romance of Beloved Enemy, Ourselves Alone is concerned chiefly with the hard...
...comedy comes from the German of Bruno Frank by way of the Scotch of Playwright Bridie (A Sleeping Clergyman). Patsy, over whom the storm rages, is a charming mongrel called Colonel in real life. He is about to be executed because his very Irish owner (Sara Allgood of The Plough and the Stars) is unable to pay his long-overdue license fee. This innocent situation causes the town provost's political career to be ruined, for his decision to execute un licensed Patsy arouses the dog-loving electorate, not to hiss, but to bark him out of office. There...