Word: shawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Interrupted by hisses for the villains and applause for the quick-witted young hero, the Arlington Players opened the week with the first performance of "Shawn Rhue", an Irish drama in four acts by William L. Murphy. The ups and downs and the honest, Industrious Donovan family progressed all too obviously; but how little that need detract from real melodrama! A large audience was captured to the last row in the second balcony by the Irish brogue, the flow of Irish wit, the good Irish names, and the triumph of Irish ingenuity. So enthusiastic did it become that numerous suggestions...