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...Belmont Hill; Franklin N. Cunningham, Milton Academy; Richard D. Edwards, Choate; David D. Henry, Country Day School; Spender Klaw, Loomis School; Horace G. Lunt, Kent School; David A. Park, Gunnery School; John S. Parker, Jr., St. mark's; Howard A. Reed, Andover; Elliot L. Richardson, Milton Academy; Bernard D. Shea, Roxbury Latin; Charles C. Smith, Middlesex School; Archibald H. Spaulding, Jr., Thayer Academy; Richard S. Suter, Groton; Stephen Winship, Andover...
Parnell (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) exhibits Clark Gable and Myrna Loy as Charles Parnell and Katie O'Shea in a screen version of the play by the late Elsie Schauffler (TIME, Nov. 25. 1935). As a cinema production, Parnell ranks high. Everything in it, from the London fog to the handles on the doors of Parliament, rebuilt life-size on a sound stage, is scrupulously authentic. As history, it ranks low, since it not only telescopes Parnell's career but also whitewashes it to suit the Hays office. As entertainment, it ranks in between. The screen play by John...
...ably studied in a recent biography (Parnell, by Joan Haslip) as well as in Author Schauffler's play. He vindicated himself of complicity in Dublin's grisly Phoenix Park murders, got Gladstone to back his Home Rule bill, fell in love with red-haired Katie O'Shea. Her husband Willie connived at their romance until it suited his purpose to sue for divorce. When Parnell failed to defend the suit, he lost not only the public that had idolized him but Gladstone's support for his bill and all chance of Home Rule for Ireland...
...Gable in the title rose plays the historical part with sincerity but is hopelessly miscast. Miss Loy as the attractive Mrs. O'Shea who disrupts the unity of the Irish Home Rule Party looks fetching in tears and bustles, but her presence on the screen doesn't seem to make much difference one way or another...
Died. Michael J. ("Mike") Galvin, boss of Chicago's Truckdrivers, Chauffeurs & Helpers Union, oldtime labor lieutenant of the Teamsters' Boss Cornelius ("Con") Shea; of wounds inflicted by 29 slugs fired from shotguns by passing gunmen; in Chicago. In a 30-year feud between the Galvin "outlaw" union and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, assassins have shot down Bosses George ("Red") Barker, William ("Three-Fingered Jack") White and Paddy Berrell...