Word: sean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, Jan. 20--Management of Sean O'Casey's Boston-banned play, "Within the Gates," announced tonight it would reopen in New York Tuesday night...
...Boston," wrote Lincoln Steffens, "has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure." In the light of Mayor Mansfield's dictum regarding Sean O'Casey's widely acclaimed drama, "Within the Gates," the judgment of the former muckraker is amply justified. His Honor the Mayor has taken it upon himself, at the urging of the Catholic Church, to brand a play termed "great" by the most experienced dramatic critics in the United States as "nothing but a dirty book full of commonplace smut...
...group of Harvard students led by Richard C. Boys '35, captain of the basketball team, and John C. Haggott '35, president of the Harvard Dramatic Club have petitioned Mayor Frederick W. Mansfield of Boston to reconsider his banning of Sean O'Casey's "Within the Gates...
...said was his patient are really a pair of kidnappers and the baby whose delivery the doctor apparently effected, their tiny victim. Authors Steele & Mitchell (Mrs. Steele) are old hands in the theatre. So are Producers Potter & Haight (Double Door, Wednesday's Child). So is Irish Playwright Sean O'Casey, who walked out on Post Road...
...less numerous than New York's Jews but no less demonstrative, the city's Irish gave the Abbey Theatre players from Dublin a warm Hibernian welcome. Drama lovers in general were glad to have the troupe back after a two-year absence, but the first offering, Sean O'Casey's The Plough & the Stars, was strictly for Irish ears. Its brogue was so thick that the play remained practically unintelligible to non-wearers of the green...