Word: stuarts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...COLOURED DOME-Francis Stuart -Macmillan...
...well, the language is even less native to Ireland than it is to the U. S. The typical Irish writer wears his English with a difference. Racial bias toward tragic fancy, racial prejudice against successful fact give the Irish writer a peculiar angle on even plain Saxon themes. Author Stuart's theme is patriotism-which to an Irishman is partly like politics and partly like being in love. His tale, which starts realistically enough and wanders through dirty Dublin streets, ends toward the stars...
...Author Stuart tells this highly improbable and occasionally ridiculous tale with such feeling that its incoherent passion is impressive, convincing in spite of itself...
...Author. Like many a good Irishman, Francis Stuart happened to be somewhere else when he was born-in his case, Australia. His Ulster-Unionist (anti-Free State) parents sent him carefully to Rugby, England's heartiest school. The inevitable Irish upshot was that Francis Stuart landed in a Dublin jail as a rioting Irish Republican. Against the wishes of both families he ran away with Iseult, niece of famed, beauteous Patriot Maud Gonne MacBride, whose husband had been executed in the 1916 rising. Now he lives in Glendalough (Dublin suburb), flies a plane, raises chickens, tries to find...
...romantic, inaccurate transcription of the newspaper accounts of the life and death of Mr. Ivar Krenger, the man who embarrassed Lee, Higginson. The detail is very lurid and satisfying. "He Learned About Women" (which did nearly get squeezed out of this) is an amusing farce, with Alison Skipworth and Stuart Erwin overacting no more than is humanly possible...