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...further notice the Letters Supplement will be sent free to all readers who request it of TIME'S Circulation Department, 350 East 22nd Street, Chicago, Ill. Supplement No. 8. available this week, includes letters (some illustrated) on the Secret Service. Kermit Roosevelt. War. Curtis Dall "suicide," Dancer Ted Shawn, Seattle politics, ancient water-closets, Revolution, chastity belts. - ED. Jarred Australian...
...Well, thank goodness, he's croaked." Those words carried clearly from the auditorium jampacked with students of Ohio's Kent State College up to the stage where Dancer Ted Shawn with his group was miming the end of his interpretation of John Brown. A few snickers followed. Dancer Shawn played on until the last curtain fell. Then he raised a long finger to hush the applause, folded his arms and spoke: "We've played before audiences in New York and Boston, we've played before the hillbillies of the Carolinas and the cowboys of Texas...
...Shawn O'Phelan, as even those who know no Irish may pronounce Sean OTaolain's Gaelic name, is a new star in Erin's sky. Known to only a few U. S. readers by a book of short stories (Midsummer Night Madness), he should soon, if A Nest of Simple Folk gets the audience it deserves, be visible throughout at least one hemisphere. This big novel of classic Irish types is set firmly in the oldfashioned, solid novel tradition, earmarked neither by the violent realism nor the violent mysticism of modern Ireland's civil...
...there are lighter touches. When the Widow Quinn bargains with lily-livered Shawn to get the playboy out of the way, when the drunken Flaherty endeavors to maintain a fatherly dignity, when the playboy discovers his good looks, when "Pegeen" upbraids him as a pretender, then does Synge bring to the foreground his intimacy with the Irish humors...
Things are going badly for Linda's scolding mother at Shawn's farm. None of the children has done well at school or in marriage. Linda dreams of being a nun. But David comes home again with Rose and happier times follow. One midsummer evening in her 15th year Linda walks out in the apple-orchard, lies on the ground, feels a strange change in her mind, her blood. Shawn's farm is no longer the heart of her world. The orange moon, ris ing over the apple trees, is to set her life's tides from...