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Fortnight ago President de Valera's oath-abolition bill slid through first reading in the Free State Dail unopposed. Last week its second reading opened with a striking boast by Tipperary's rip-roaring Deputy Dan Breen (TIME...
Died. Mrs. Lewis Morrison (Rose Wood), 82, oldtime actress, grandmother of the cinemacting Sisters Bennett (Constance, Barbara & Joan); of old age; in Tenafly, N. J. She played many a leading role with Joseph Jefferson in such productions as Rip Van Winkle, The Rivals, starred in Lester Wallack's stock company...
...went well until the game with Lake Shore in Chicago. There it was discovered that they were playing the Capone outfit. Perhaps you can guess the conclusion. It puts the finishing touches to the best rip-roaring yarn for many years. But read it for yourself...
...living only last November in New York City (where Eamon de Valera was born). American money in a grand old Irish way makes Irish history, has made it for 90 years. But Tipperary elected Dan Breen last week just because he is such a rip-roaring ould bouchal. Twenty actual times the British have put actual bullets into him. On Dan's head His Majesty's Government once had a price of ?10,000 ($48.600 then) for his capture...
...American fables that an old man once climbed up into the Catskill Mountains and slept there for twenty years. Young children have kicked their heels before an open fire as mothers read them the tale of Rip Van Winkle. Barefooted urchins with long bamboo poles have wondered at the persistency of a man who would sit all day upon a wet rock with a "rod as long and as heavy as a Tartar's lance," whatever that might be. Our fathers step out into the bright lights of Broadway from a Theatre Guild production, with a soft sigh for days...