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...writer he is often criticized as one whose natural vein of mysticism has made him a Platonist, responsive to the mystic vein of Gaelic literature. Richness, sympathy, and mysticism are the chief marks of his lyric poetry, and appear also in his prose-drama on Irish tradition, "Deirdre". He is also a sympathetic and imaginative critic. Deeply interested in the social and political problems of Ireland, he has written and done much for his country in this connection. At one time he was the editor of The Irish Statesman...
...lunged; bumped the shot gun over a ravine; bit off Mills's nose; seized him by the leg and started to drag him over the rocks. The hardy Mills stopped the flight by catching at a tree. Pulling his knife, he turned over and cut the bear's jugular vein...
Continuing in an enthusiastic vein on the subject of "The Play's the Thing", he characterized it as a novel departure in the field of modern comedy one in which the author, Ferene Molnar, has put himself into the play in his professional character of playwright. Binn portrays the playwright in the role of Sandor Turai...
Peripherie. From their tumultuous spectacles (Midsummer Night's Dream, Jedermann, Danton's Tod), Producer Max Reinhardt and company turned last week to the quieter drama of speculation. Peripherie, which has been translated as "The Ragged Edge," treats murder in somewhat the same vein of comic realism as does the U. S. tabloid press. What digs the vein deeper than it is ever dug by dramatic U. S. journalism or journalistic U. S. drama, is a thrust of reason which Europeans do not fear to exert in their most fantastic moods. Franzi, the roustabout hero of Peripherie, murders a wealthy patron...
Only a breeze from Boston could persuade me to rush into print in this vein, but "Brother" Rapp is due an apology for my injuring his sensibilities...