"My Irish Rose"

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 35, 13 March 1931, Page 6

"My Irish Rose"

APPROPRIATE to St. Patrick’s Day 4YA will relay from Gore on Tuesday, March 17, Walter Ben Hare’s com-edy-drama, "My Irish Rose," which is to be. played there by a strong cast, under the direction of Mrs. Molly O’Sullivan, F.T.C.I. : .¢ It is a play in three acts, and the scene is laid in Ireland.. Listeners will be introduced .to several interesting characters, and the dialogue will prove most entertaining. The leading role, that of Rose Creigan, a little Irish country lass, will be taken by Mrs. O’Sullivan. The course of true love is said never to run smoothly, and Rose found this out. In the first two acts there is much conspiring and misunderstanding, and the plot thickens in the third act, resulting, however, in a happy denouement. Maurice Fitzgerald, a wealthy Dublir. artist, falls in love with Rose while painting her picture, He proposes marriage, and is accepted.. Shortly after he learns from his family lawyer, Mr. Pepperdine, that his cousin has been killed, and that he is a baronet, heir to the estate. Mr. Pepperdine suggests that he break off his matrimonial entanglement, but Maurice spurns the suggestion with contempt. Lady Agnes Barricklow has long been in love with Maurice, and now that he is a wealthy baronet, decides to marry him. © She arrives at the farm with Hileen, Maurice’s sister, and tries to break off the match between Rose and Sir Maurice by suggesting to Rose that her lover is already engaged to marry Pileen (who is really his step-sister). Rose sees Maurice embrace his sister, and thinking she is his betrothed, agrees to break the match. But Archibald Pennywitt, a blundering BEnglish tourist, explains that. Bileen is Maurice’s sister, and Maurice introduces Rose to all as his affianced wife. | In Act 8, the return of Rose’s brother, who has been cashiered from the. army and gone to America increases the complications, but. listeners must tune in to 4YA and hear for. themselves.