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...Plough and the Stars. About 10 p. m. on the night of November 27, 1911 there was a riot at a Manhattan theatre. Eithne Magee, chief actress, was bumped in the head by a potato; rotten eggs squashed stickily against the scenery. Fists flew in the audience; police swooped down in platoons, and the performance proceeded to a dishevelled but triumphant curtain. Horrified Irish residents had precipitated the fuss, irate because Synge's Playboy of the Western World, cast doubts upon the purity of an Irish girl. That the play was presented by their own Irish players, specially imported...
...When The Plough and the Stars, by Sean O'Casey, a hodcarrier, was given in Dublin there were more screams of libel, more bloody noses. The play tells of the Easter rebellion of 1916 when English machine guns shot holes in a fiery burst for Irish freedom. Some of the characters are patriots; some of them are drunken philosophers; one is a chubby prostitute in scarlet silk. The story tells the stark sorrow of a young bride whose patriot husband dies from the bite of English bullets. She loses her baby; loses her mind...
Epigram,: "To plough is to pray, to plant is to prophesy, and the harvest answers and fulfills...
Tests of the device last week produced plowing like clockwork. But when Mr. Zybach was first experimenting with a crude model, his neighbors warned him not to let the tractor get loose and destroy any of their property. Once he set the machines to plough all night. The neighbors came over at midnight and implored him to stop...
Furze, meanwhile, marries a waitress whose full bosom heaves with eagerness to scrub the floors he walks on. She, Rose, shares his passion for the practical, his desire to toil and spin and then plough fields to get up a sweat. With her he is happy...