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BATURDAY, JULY 28, - 1928.

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POETRY.

FIVE POEMS FROM THE

GAELI

(By Donn Byrna.)

The five poems here translated were extremely well known in southern Ulster filteen years ago, in Omsith, and in the district of Kilevy, The Coolin," or "The "Girl with the Grand- Fair Hend," und Pho Red Haired Man's Wife" ure the best known love songs, in Ireland, and have very beautiful. melodies. To the air of The Coolin"

Thomas Moore wrote Though the last glimpse of Erin." And Katherine Tynan Hinkson has tapled "The Red Haired Man's Wife" into English metre as well * could be done, but it is rarely heard. John McCormack told me it was ong of his favourites, but he could not sing it, because from the title the public insisted it was s humorous song! The melodios of these belong to what the peasantry call the cool sidhe, or fairy music, And it is considered bad luck, or Falbur bad tasto, to sing them in the neighbourhood of the raths, or fairy forts. "The Roman Earl" Is a rollicking square dance tune to it-a rinnce jada, or long danco, like: ሲ Virginia reel, and the pseudo-philosophical poem.

"The Shallow World," is sung to a very lively slip jig. "Open the Door, Peter. I heard sung by a very old woman on Slieve Gullion, with an intensity of gnice notes, a sort of chant, akin to what I have heardl in a synagogue.

I have put these down as you would bear them tunsinted to you is a Gaelic district, if you were to ask some old fisherman, or oli woman bent by the fire, what he or she was singing and they were assured that you were sincerely ansions to know; and not actuated by a desire to laugh or patronize. I translate thein from my own memory, Gaelic having been, in my boyhood, as native to me as the English tongue,

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THE GIRL WITH THE GRAND PAIR HEAD.

(An Chuilfhionn.) Let you get up now, servent boy, night or no night, and shap

the saddle on the wee nure! Right this moment I'm Coll to have a look at tha woman 'ie put- ting pain in my heart. I've been sitting at the hire, and the memory of her voice has come to mé, nine times more inelodious than the first cuckoo of spring.

They all do be looking at my girl of fair trosses and she in the middle of the fair, the grand com- plexion that's on hor, the corn- poppies of her checks, the perfect forin of her beauty-every strong farmer's son that sees her thinks he has a chance of bringing her to his house of strong rafters.

They all do bn looking at my girl of fair tresses and she walk- ing the meadows of a June mern- ing, the wee silver dew upon her shoes they all do be thinking of marrying her. By God! They can think again.

Ach, sure you're my sister and my worm secról, you're my love, my inspiration. You're the cool green glade of the young men every day in the week.

Your

face is like the rose itself, and -you've the swan's white curve to

the neck of you. "Tis the great.į Jardship on me I am not where you're making your gonile beil.

Do you mind that night we were conversing at your window together? The wee secret squeeze! you gave my fingers. I stretched myself by your sido, ond in my heart was no evil, and we were together, talking quietly, until heard the lack shaking his son.

"Tin the hard way your poet is in, now, during, no silver at him, nor expectation of gold, his cont in tatters, and bin without a second shirt. Not even a brown penny in my pocket-may the Son of God look in kindures on me I promised you twice, be- fore I kissed yor on the month. that I would never ask you to marry, me.

Childeen. I'm going to take that back, so I must, gentleness. Į o kind one, be loving and brave. Don't put by the love of your heart just because he's pur. Make a wee vault over the win dow now, and be hitting the radi with me. I swear I'll swear on the Bible or on anything on earth that the Son of God will not leave us without mur meal in the evening.

FILMS

remember when I first acted for the film telling the producer that, as a PROGRAMME FEATURES.pectator, I thought it ugly, unreal,

TO-NIGHT.

in Africa."

World."Good Women."

Star. Kowloon.-Twin Beds.''

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE RED HAINED MAN'S WIFE..

(Den an Phir Ruaidh;) Thero's grent talk in the coun- try, yourself that has the seagull beaten for whiteness. They do be saying that 'tis yourself, has the pleasant kissing mouth They do be saying that 'tis your- self has the slim nunt ankle over nbuckled shoe. They do be. saying this, too, that it's tho great fool I've made of myself, with my running here and there at the beek of the Red Huired. Man's Wife:

Why

· Well, I'll admit it. stronld I conceal what everyone la knowledge of? Your bosomn` is whiter than any awan that swims on woves. And the rose of the bushes hasn't the rea of your checks. And where is the cuckoo will sing melodiously and yon opening your mouth to speak? And every tresa that comes on your head has a finer feel to it than Chinese silk.

once thought, so I did, that. there would be one house be- Iween me and you. And I thought after that it would be my own child you would be soothing.

May the curse of the King of Heaven' blast the one who took iny good name from me, him and the whole damned lying pack that put strangeness belwoen you and mot

O blossom-girl of the slender shape, I put a hundred thousand blessings from me to you. I'am broken hearted-you won't be lieve it, but I'm near death itsell

for want of touching you every lour. If I had the gift of coax. ing women, I might put into your understanding the great hard- ships that are on me. When Ber- geant Death asks me have I any "statement to make and he arrest. ing me, all I'll say is this: My hundred loves are the Wife of the Red Haired Man!

my

By God! girl, if I were in Dublin city, and in prison there, bod adroitly, boits on wrists and ankles and a chai around my waist, and I thought there was a chance of you, I would spring free as a gwan springs over a breakwater, for one kiss from the mouth of the Red Haired Man's Wife.

THE ROMAN- FÀBIA, Ant Tarla Bhi 'Son Roimh.)

The man that puts affection on women, a great fool he is surely. They're not the same ne men are, And another thing: When they're burying a man they ought to keep these women out of it.

priate emphasis. Only in this way, he contends, will the right effect be secured.

This decision of an up-to-date roducer only enforces my opening point of the essential identity be tween stage and screen acting; and it fits in with the rapidly spreading conviction that plbyors with stage training are best for the film...

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There was a clover fellow in Rome-a-curl he was, no less ——~, & rich man used have gold cups for drinking from, and about him and his wife there's a strange story, told.

These two were lying down sido by side on a bed. of feathers, and be damned-but if the carl didn't lot on he was dying to find out what she'd say

"Och, och, ahe screeches, if you die, what would I be with- out you? Every red penny. I bavo," she says, “I'd give to the poor. And milk and satin and gold would be the garment. I'd Layo made for you, and you going into the tomb," saya tho.j Ab, she was the tricky one.

And with that what did the old boy do, but let on bo's dead entirely. And did she keep u word she promined? Will you wait-will you be patient until I be telling you!

The next damned thing he found. himself was in a hearse gn the street, and lo and behold yo! a yard of coarse canvas tied around his middle, hot teaching bis hips. Boys, oh boyat it was shameful.

So she ups and beautifies hur- self something grand, and trota off to the graveyard with himself. And devil a penny did she give to the Church of God, nor alms to o poor man would be needing it:

And just as she was starting back for home, he gives a jump out of the gravo: "And this is a damned funny way of burying me." saya be; "and me nearly naked I'

Do you think he phased her? Not a bit of it. She had an excuse on the tip of her tongue, even then, when you'd think he'd lad her shamed.

"Darling," says she, "they're out of date, these winding sheets. I fixed you that way, so you'd bo supple," says she, and you boat- ing the rest of them on the race to the Throne of Glory. The others would be as if they were tied in bags and you'd be leaping like a bars."

No matter what affection you have for women, remember, they're changeable as the wind. They'd fool the Greeks, they would so. And cheat. Look of all the grand linon herself had in the house, and the grudged himn a yard would cover his naked-

nesa.

So the cunning old carl saya, says he, and he never winked an eys: A man ought to take care and buy himself a decent funeral bofore ho leaves his money to his wife.

And when he knows he's dying, enye ho, ho ought to keep quiel about it. He oughtn't to let ont a sigh or groan, says he, would give her a hint at all. "

THE SHALLOW WORLD. (An Sooghal Slim.)

A quoer bitter thing it lif you're a rich man, there'll never be disgrace ou you, no matter wore to kill all Comacht, but if ́ you're a poor man, you'vɑ. gọt no sense, no uprightness." ... Sure fan't it myself that knows

battle they'll put up and me try.supers, would you?". Or în “E ing to get to the gatoa.

ours Easy," that satire on And o Mary Mother, if you patricians funked during the hear, a mighty conflict going on, unpleasantness, which is a compl and Peter is in & aurly mood that antidote to the fawning day, let you be taking tha koys in mentality of Ian Hay, he wor your own band, and untwist the unabashed the anecdote about a rusty lock of heaven.

Russian soldiers, "good lads fro the country, simple but careful who killed a Japaneso colonel in lonely tronch because they were NDË quite sure wicther this war was still the old one with Japan or another Ho thus achieves an intimacy with the reader which is all too fare the successors of Dickens and Thackeray.

FICTION

VIGOROUS VERSATILITY,

[Fiary Particles, by C. E. Montague.]

Sure isn't it myself that knows it? When I had a stockingful of

Disenchantment" showed money, you never saw a fellow,

readers that Mr. Montague is nei with so many-relativos and

Were there nothing else to recomthin rett line of 'eroes" to a maw ther fool or knave. He sings no frioada, but since it's gone from me it is, I haven't seen sight or mend this group of brilliant short kish world that wants its hottes sigh of anyong for a month stories, its variety and striking vicarionely. In this volume, again, When I go to fair it's invisible change of colour would earn's big the war stories shine like Verey am. They must think when my ranking in the output of content-lights on the dark No Man's Land sonby died, I died loo;

But if had frankful ofporary fiction. Mr. Montague of military stupidity. On the other monoy again, and me with no makes no attempt to be original; and, he is not a neurotic slottering raore sense that a clucking ben, traces of Kipling and Donne, Cheking in the trenches. Ho seas thin the army because of cheap plumb sure they'd say that Solonjuu was buff and 0.. Henry are easily found too

a overrated man, and they bear-

ing the foolish ernetes I would be in his plots and his treatment. making.

Novertheless, in vigorous versatility

But now that haven't a cow, nor a abilling in the teapot, nor o bag of flaxseed nor a field might be plowed, if I were giving lessons to Harry Stattle (Aristotle) him self, they'd say: What is that damned fool talking about?

between these covers are two Irish sketebes, three stories of the war, a newspaper tale, a literary burlesque, a pastoral of mountain climbing, and a creepy a mystery as can be created by words--the author has been surpassed by no moderp singer of sogns.

Then the road was vacant and white for a time, till a wailing of bagpipes arose, and a kilted batte tion, dwarfed to the size of a com pany, hove into sight, marching the opposite way; four little com panies like platoons, and fow officers anywhere: the pipes skirling some fearful lament, almost animal, like a moaning oF keening of primitive women over their dead; the men with a stiff, savago gait of sombre defiance scom of the enemy they had Binnshed, of the staff that had thrown Scottish valour away, of the non-Scottish troops that had tish commander-in-chief that had failed on a flank of the non-Boot-

looned the fool battle.

I speut my money, and all I bought for it was experience that Varioty, yes! But here is a dealer it's a shallow world is in it, and in other spices, too. Here is a con- poor-hearted creatures. It's a tagiotis humour rising to a roar in bad purchase I've made, I'm "All for Peace and Quiet," and thinking, for my philosophy more important, a pervasive irony won't buy the filling of a pipe, or that will penetrate the thickest the draining of a wee half-glass, victim; here is sympathy for man- I wish I had my money back. I kind as broad as his Irish brogue da Bo.

and an understanding of man- as quick as a bayonet thrust. He is And then we know it is the skeleton eparing of words, yet not par- battalion, not personal maladjust imonious; generous with action,ment, that inspired his resentment. yet melodramatic. The stories Though he also strikes at the?

enter...

move.

gham of academicians and the subtl

OPEN THE DOON, PETV. (Fosgail an doras, a, Pheadair 1)

Let you be opening the door now, Peter, since that's the appointment you've received in Unlike Mr. Kipling, who is con-dishonesty of the presa, he does not. heaven. Let you be giving me nfessedly a listener in his soldier cut as deeply there. And in pors hand in. My soul alone wants to stories, our author either parti-traying the Irish he is traditionally cipates in the action or is wholly out | sentimental. Still, who would of it. Yet even when he is outside scold? Each character is a lovable we catch him peeking in. Thus incuss with a world of wisdom in hie the first, another tale of nabrosia wit. And action, too.

For Mr brewing " 'It's the stuff' he said, Montague differs from Donne fn gravely, that made the old gods of that he has more story and feas the Greeks and Romans feel sure sketch blush to find my crea- they were gods. Be cripes, they tres so forward," he writes in o were right. asseverated Maguire" note, "they step up to life, they he suddenly interrupts the action speak to her first and offer to print to ask the reader, If ever the their own whims on such talk a It's no easy thing to get by, bounty of heaven should raise may pass between them and her Peter, for they're powerful fight bumper crop of Garrdicks on earth, before she consigns them to dust! ers, the three of them. A great [ you would not use them as so many

-C. G.

If I'm in any state to get in, let you leave the way free. Three things are trying to trip me up and hold me down and me on the path of grace.

The three-need I be naming them?--the devil, and the desires of the body, and the world that is destroying us-o God, I hope you conquer all of them.

KINEGRAPHIC-INDIA.--

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HOLLYWOOD. I

"Hollywood" is finished. The biggest picturo Fammount ever made, produced by James Cruze,

Mr. Lowell Thomas, an Ameri- can citizen, hus rendered a valuable servics to the British Empire in waking and producing his fascinat." ing travelogue, "Through Romantic the inan who directed "The Cover

A COCKNEY GIRL'S BIG

WINI

During the making of the final scenes for the film in which she is now playing the landing part. Violet Hopeon-visited one of dut

India," and we hope the British ed Wagon" has been edited and test famous, racecourses altired as

4 public will feel duly grateful to him, titled to the complete satisfaction of La Cockney girl. To the great

and a source of irritation.

"Just when I am interested in a The limited range of movement scene, I told him, "it is replaced so that the actor may keep within by a huge face, and before I have eye of the camera, compared with recovered from the shock and the the spaciousness of the stage, is s Coronet.—"Hunting Big Game back again." The producer smiled cult at first. Another is the absence annoyance the picture is switched point that the stage actor finds difi- with polite superciliousness, and of an audience; not merely the told me that when I had acquired absence of its applause, but of that his experience of film work I would subtle: communication between know-better.

stage and auditorium which is so So, feeling as small na my six feet inspiring. of height would let me, said no i more. But I have never altered my he employed nearly so freely. for the And, finally, make-up" cannot THE TRUTH ABOUT THE opinion. And now the whirligig of films. The camera shove it up

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time is bringing its revenge. Act ruthlessly. This means that it is of The Wandering Jew, I was told to look the part than it is for the ing recently for the acrean version more important for the screen netor by Maurice Elvey, the Stoll Film actor on the regular stage. Let me Co.'s producer, that he intended to wind up with a personal experience. girl in St. Paul and is the proud avoid many dose-ups, because they are inartistic and disconcerting to the film version of the play, Lem cup. She will be sent to compete When I was playing Mr. W for possessor of a huge silver loving

ployed my stage make-up, which, it was generally admitted, was most in a national beauty contest. The A vital difference between stage successful. I really looked like a winner, according to present plans, and screen acting is this. In the Chinaman. When photographed, it will be given an opportunity to spokon drama, the actor is led up was hopeless. Not a bit like the enter the movies. to his climaxes. He builds up a real thing character bit by bit as the play pro- grosses, and the scene of benso emo-made and tried. All failed. The All sorts of suggestions were tion is the outcome of careful producer was in despair. 1 bad an development.

iden. "I'll have the front of my The screen play is quite different. head shaved."

[By Matheson Lang-j

"Are there any differences be tween acting on the regular stage

and acting for the screen?" is a question often put to me. And when I reply "Yes," it is followed up by What are they?" "Now, that by no means so easy to answer, for the simple reason that, in many instances, they are just felt by the actor, and feelings are not easy to put into words. At bottom both forms of the art are the same. the expression of character through the personality of the actor. The dividing line is that the voice is not wanted for the screen. Hence,

fuciul-oxpression and gesture have

to be somewhat inore depended

upon. With the spoken word, those

He has a good voice, as he needed, the Lasky, studio executives and is to have to Ell Covent Garden Opern

usement of racegoers, the prefte

Cockney girl made her bet with a man on the rails, and then watched the race with great enthusiast The horse she had backed efidently

House, which, on the first night now ready for release, The world (the production fa under the premier will take place probably in auspices of the English Speaking New York some time in August. Union), was well-filled. Moreover The idea of making a pictire-won, for, having collected the his lecture, to the accompaniment of story showing the stars and cele- money owing to her, she gave here his pictures, is delivered in clear, brities of the screen in their real "husband" a hug, ond then, to concise and graphic phrases. Landaurroundings was first announced everyone's, surprise, fled to abelters ing at Cape Carmarin, he travelled last year. Frank Condon had sub in a Rolle-Royce car which was to Madras, thence into Hyderabad mitted bis noveletto, "Hollywood waiting near by "One of them (Deccan) on to Bombay, thence to and the Only Child, to Jesse L. bloomin' profiteor," someone re- Quetta and Peshawar, and up to the Lasky and Mr. Laalty had become marked. "No, t'ain't!" came the Khyber Pass, where he seems to captivated by its romantic charm reply, it's an advertisement for Miss Dorothy Watson, of St. have persuaded the billmen to put and onthused by its great possibili sumink!” Paul, Minnesota, pretty seventeen-up fi realistic raid for record by his ties as screen entertainment. The But it was the jolly, red-laced been acclaimed the most beautiful and Benares; on to Calcutta Cruze, who was then engaged in the queried, and then confidentially he years-old telephone operator, has kinema-camera: Down then, after story was turned over to Thomas J. bookmaker who recognised bet

a dip into the Vale of Kashmir, to Geraghty for adaptation and James "D'yer know who that was?" be and Darjeeling a visit to Puri com production of "The Covered | shouted (as if proud of his know-,

At the last minute word ruched pleting, with. Benares and Madura, Wagon," was named as the direc-ledge). That was Violet Hopeon the trinity of India's aerod cities, tor.

the film star-and I believe I was ing The announcement that this pic-the picture with her won't the him that the Ameer had at length tare would be produced for release missus he jealous? During the consented to receiva him at in 1928 was made early last year Elming of the final scenes for this Afghanistan's capital, so he turned and created widespread interest, production, entitled “Beautiful back with all his photographic para Instead of being a sight-seeing trip Kitty," glorious weather ban prec phernalia to Kabul and his caters through the motion picture studios vailed, and Mr. Walter West Baya pictures of that city are probably, Hollywood," say Paramount home that the photographic results are af and are likely to remain for some office executives, who recently awthat could be desired. time onique. Hie visit to India the picture at the Lasky studio, is A FORTUNATE SLIP. synchronised with that of the one of the most antic and Prince, of whose movements he was' oroughly interesting dramas they Whatever may be said or written permitted to obtain some extremely have ever seen on the screen. The pictures are concerned. In fact,

interesting records.co

plot, most cleverly conceived by the is doubtful if more than one, player order that may be convenient. The "Neyer more in "barnest," I on-concerning the secrets of the spreen A notable thing about the exhibi- author and worked out as only will be recognized by any audience actor, therefore, must be ready to swered. "I'm sure that's the only the foot remains that Constance|tion in that much of the film is pre-master-director like Cruze could do as ever having been scen on the plunge at a moment's notice into a way, and I'll do it." I braced my-Talmadge has risen to dizzy, beights sented in natural colour, the result, it, abounds in pathos, melodrama screen before. The selection of very tempast of passion, to assume, self by reflecting that I would of film stardom very largely through ceristal research of a group of Bri- the picture is u masterpiece of fully two months of Mr. Cruze

Mr. Thomas explained, of the suc and humour, they say. Moreover, these players, however, occupied without preparation or leading-up. henceforward replace the man who

the audience.

The

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scenes are photographed, "What he exclaimed, “you're "shot" is the technical torn, in any joking

ABR YOU A “LIVE WIRE?

are but supplementary; without it to, any and every mood, surious or blacked himself all over to play her own ability to reflect her own tish scientists; and these pictures technique in photography and light time. Hundreds of tests werd they have to be all expressive. And that constitutes a pitfall. There is said above that the absence of scientiousmess

Othello as u trodel of artistic con- natural personality on the silver are indeed, singularly beautiful. By ing and not one of the scores of pie made, with the result, it in mid sheet. Although she is mistress of the time these lines are in print Mr. are notables is introduced illogi that the principal finally choles always the danger of over-emphasis the spoken word is the most im- A barber was sent for. The fall acting technique through her Thomas's short tenure of the big cally or without a direct bearing on will be found to reveal talent even ing both facial expression and gea-portant difference between the two deed was novomplished. Again I lengthy experience before the opera house will be drawing to a the unfolding of the story......

surpassing that of many of the star ture, and thus over-acting. This forms of noting. That must not be faced the camera. • This time I cameras, it is the tomboy" in her closs, but people who have longed. Prastically the entire cast of of to-day. These principals cars. pitfall is particularly difficult to taken too literally. Words are em came out the real thing. And then nature which consistently radiates to see India without the remotest principals was chosen from the the story through to its conclusion avoid when "close-ups are being ployed by film actors. They are I want home. Mrs, Lang was wait through all her character imparsons prospect of doing, so a recoms ranks of the "poknowns" so far as and at no time are they detached taken. You know what close-up" told to make nee of any words that ing dinner for une. I entered the tions and gaina ber the sympathy of mended, whenever and wherever

from its notion: am? The much-megnified fuvest in with the emotion they ard to dining-room with my hat on. Blie ber audience

they can, to bear Mr. Lowell thrown on to the screen so as to give express as a help towards realis-seamed surprised, but said nothing. Sho come to the screen through Thomas, and to see his pictures the Rudienos a clearer view of doing it.

us I hurriedly apologised for being the influence of mister-worship. For, they are India, indeed. Their edu- tional display. Now, when the But Suestrom, that most artistic late and went upstaire to make at the time when Norma Talmadge | cative value for the uninformed and carners, magnifier in that way, even Swedish producer, with whom I myself presentable.

was gaining a name as a star, Con unimaginative among the people of the flickor of an eyelid may lead to worked in Men of the Sco, now goes I came and sat down-still wear stance was still a schoolgirl. When these falando cannot arily be mentoretton by the use of Finketion. Thres caricature. Bo that in, this instance further. He does not leave it to the ing my bat: Wifely remonstrance she left her schooldays behind, Con- gured ; but if through their medium, le lille ferallyes help you fathe the actor must reverse the malplayers to improvise whatever fellowed, based on justifiable suspi- stance wha an elmost daily visitor an idea is conveyed to the man in

dak? by ladtang daily engularity, thus, ligation, niear briîn and, procese, and maderant rather than plirsen may rear to them best tions. Then I uncovered She" to the gladia where Norse workçe, the street and to the children in the to incat the case. He has realised the truth--the naked krath, Qas day she managed to slip in schools for the pride of Empiry theworde written out for There are scenes över which 30 in front of the Zamargs, and fortunate, citizenship, Mr. Thomas will have But I am glad to say that the them." Moreover, he insists they best to draw, not a veil, hút a sur, ly for the screen comedy of, to-day laid upon us a debt which will not

up some to be going. I shall be apoken aloud, with appro|taine

no bag thought to turn hat out?" "a | easily be repaid;

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