The Silver Tassie (play) play's study of Harry’s loss of many of his life’s hopes during and after the war, marks it as unusual. In 1928, W. B. Yeats rejected the play for the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. It premièred at the Apollo Theatre in the West End of London on 11 October 1929. It was directed by Raymond Massey and starred Charles Laughton and Barry Fitzgerald. The set design for act two was by Augustus John. It ran for twenty-six performances. George Bernard Shaw and Lady Gregory were both great admirers of the production. Its Irish première was on 12 August 1935 at
Padraic Colum the notebooks, manuscripts, galley proofs, and letters that were in his apartments in New York and Dublin to the Binghamton University Libraries. He wished to make whatever resources he could available to scholars of Irish literature and history. Asked how to say his name, he told "The Literary Digest" the last name was the same as the word "column". "In my first name, the first "a" has the sound of "au". The ordinary pronunciation in Irish is "pau'drig"." As screenwriter: As editor: Print Online Padraic Colum Padraic Colum (8 December 1881 – 11 January 1972) was an Irish poet, novelist,