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...undeservedly obscure classics can see two sprightly, acerbic Restoration comedies at R.S.C. headquarters in Stratford-upon-Avon, George Farquhar's The Constant Couple and William Wycherley's The Plain Dealer, plus Noel Coward's Easy Virtue, ably done in the West End. At the National, Dion Boucicault's The Shaughraun, a 19th century Irish separatist tract masquerading as a farcical melodrama, proves its author a deft orchestrator of tone and plot...
...actor, producer; friend of Shaw, Barrie, King Edward VII, Sir Henry Dickens (barrister son of Novelist Dickens); of Bright's disease, in Manhattan. Once he gave half a bob (12?) to a street urchin named Charles Chaplin. He played approximately 2,000 times in Boucicault's The Shaughraun...
Actor Smith. "As late as 1916, when I was sheriff of New York, the parish needed funds, so we produced Boucicault's The Shaughraun in the basement of the church. I played Corry Kinchela. the villain. . . . The hero was played by James J. Walker, now Mayor of the City of New York. ... I have often said that my prominence in them [amateur theatricals] played no small part in bringing me to the attention of the people of my neighborhood, which, unquestionably, in time to come, had something to do with my elections...
Last week in the Governor's house at Albany, Alfred Emanuel Smith, four-time Governor of New York, thumbed the tattered pages of a manuscript of a roaring melodrama of old Ireland, The Shaughraun. Eyes twinkling with kindly memories he read his lines: in May he is to play the part of the black-hearted villain in the plot, Cory Kinchela, at the 100th birthday of St. James Catholic Church, Manhattan. In that parish his early days were spent; three times before he has played the villain of The Shaughraun...
...Copeland will read passages from well known English and Irish writers at 8 o'clock this evening in Sever 11. The programme includes one scene from Sheridan's "Critic" and one from his "School for Scandal," a selection from Boucicault's play "Shaughraun," Goldsmith's "Retaliation," selections from works of Gerald Griffin, and Dooley's "Comment on Christian Science." These selections will be rendered in Engand in the Brogue. The reading is open only to members of the University...