Prominent in Gilbert & Sullivan Productions
new; an’ what think ye Tibbie wears ilka day?” So runs an utterance by one of *the characters of Barrie’s “A Window in Thrums.” We may profitably compare it with a transcription of Irish speech made in one of the plays of John M. Synge: “And to think it’s me is talking sweetly, Christy Mahon, and I the fright of seven townlands for my biting tongue. Well, the heart’s a wonder; and I’m thinking, there won’t be our like in Mayo, for gallant lovers, from this hour to-day.” The playmakers of to-day who have earned the disapproval of the “inexpert” Mayor from the provinces might profitably study the wholly artistic dialogue of Sir James Barrie in his writings for the the'atre, just as the dialect writers who are active 40 years after “A Window^in Thrums” was written will do well* to take to heart the perfection of John Millington Synge, _
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 218, 3 December 1927, Page 22 (Supplement)
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155Prominent in Gilbert & Sullivan Productions Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 218, 3 December 1927, Page 22 (Supplement)
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