Word: scotlanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...native Ireland tiny, bald, 38-year-old Playwright Carroll owes his thick brogue and the background for his plays. But to Scotland he owes his livelihood, and to the U. S. his fame...
...young man lit out for Glasgow. There for 15 years, living in the slums himself, he taught slum children about "who discovered America and other such nonsense." He wrote plays which got a hearing at Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre, but brought in little income. England and Scotland ignored him. The U. S. success of Shadow and Substance last year gave Carroll his first independence, enabled him to quit teaching, buy an old country villa...
...those sentimental Irishmen who love leprechauns and hobs" -is the country Carroll will go on writing about. The U. S., where at present he is visiting, he would not live in either, but its theatre is the one in the world that excites him. Scotland, though dramatically a cipher, is the place to live -because "its people leave you alone." England, full of "those gentle barbarians so much more dangerous than bloody barbarians," he despises...
LONDON--Police posted armed guards around the official residence of Prime Minister Noville Chamberlain and other government buildings tonight after Scotland Yard received an anoymous warning that there would be "more bombs tonight" in a series of outrages blamed on the Irish Republican Army...
Meanwhile, last week the harassed Prime Minister experienced two more blasts against his foreign policy. Newspapers in the north of England and Scotland, somewhat removed from the personal influence of Government members, scored Mr. Chamberlain for allowing President Roosevelt to be the democratic leader who has thus far delivered the strongest attack on the dictator states...