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PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! A son of the Ould Sod cuts 'through the Irish mist that envelops his boyhood village as he sets out for a metropolis in an alien land. Playwright Brian Friel tells his tale with invention and compassion...
Stickier questions of taste arise in a gold-filtered Eden, where Adam (Michael Parks) takes shape in the sod, starts poking around Paradise eying Eve (Ulla Bergryd) and her apple while an athletic camera plays now-you-see-it, oh-you-don't with their anatomy. Such defoliated innocence fills an audience with awe, not for the miracle of mankind but for the skill of split-second cutting...
PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! The American immigrant experience is a tale oft told; but in this engaging drama, Irish Playwright Brian Friel offers a fascinating visit to the Ould Sod for a glimpse of the wrenching departure that precedes each expectant arrival...
...continents, locking up the gargle every day till 3 p.m., Mrs. Rae Jeffs got three books out of him before he died. One was Brendan Behan's New York, published in 1964, a love song to that city; one was Brendan Behan's Island-the Ould Sod, what else? And the third was this. In prying this one out of Behan, Mrs. Jeffs didn't have the half of a time. He talked it all into a tape recorder, she blushing the while, and when the gargle put him under before he could read what...
...Republic of Ireland grows more prosperous. In 1960 Ireland had virtually no strikes. Last year it had 89 major ones - trainmen quit running trains, gravediggers quit digging graves, and, no doubt with special enthusiasm, mailmen cut off all parcel-post traffic be tween the Ould Sod and England...