MELODY FOR IRISH FILM
i An Irish road-mender has unwit(tingly provided the musical theme ifor Kathleen Ryan in her latest ' picture with Stewart Granger |"Captain Boycott." In search oi musical inspiration for this Irish film, composer William Alwyn visited Ircland and listened wherever the age-old folk songs of the coun!try were sung. While in a village "pub" he heard the road-mender singing a beauti-
ful melody and It immediately provided him with a theme for Kathleen Ryan's background masic. i
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 November 1947, Page 6
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80MELODY FOR IRISH FILM Chronicle (Levin), 1 November 1947, Page 6
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