The lines
beginning
'Do not make a great keening' and 'They shall be
remembered for ever' are said or sung to an air heard by one of the
players in a dream.
remembered for ever' are said or sung to an air heard by one of the
players in a dream.
Yeats
Caufield; Michael Gillan, Mr.
T.
Dudley Digges;
Peter Gillan, Mr. W. G. Fay.
Miss Maude Gonne played very finely, and her great height made Cathleen
seem a divine being fallen into our mortal infirmity. Since then
the part has been twice played in America by women who insisted on
keeping their young faces, and one of these when she came to the door
dropped her cloak, as I have been told, and showed a white satin
dress embroidered with shamrocks. Upon another,--or was it the same
occasion? --the player of Bridget wore a very becoming dress of the time
of Louis the Fourteenth. The most beautiful woman of her time, when
she played my Cathleen, 'made up' centuries old, and never should the
part be played but with a like sincerity. This was the first play of
our Irish School of folk-drama, and in it that way of quiet movement
and careful speech which has given our players some little fame first
showed itself, arising partly out of deliberate opinion and partly out
of the ignorance of the players. Does art owe most to ignorance or
to knowledge? Certainly it comes to its deathbed full of knowledge.
I cannot imagine this play, or any folk-play of our school, acted by
players with no knowledge of the peasant, and of the awkwardness and
stillness of bodies that have followed the plough, or too lacking in
humility to copy these things without convention or caricature.
The lines beginning 'Do not make a great keening' and 'They shall be
remembered for ever' are said or sung to an air heard by one of the
players in a dream. This music is with the other music at the end of
the third volume.
APPENDIX III
_THE GOLDEN HELMET. _
_The Golden Helmet_ was produced at the Abbey Theatre on March 19,
1908, with the following cast:--Cuchulain, J. M. Kerrigan; Conal, Arthur
Sinclair; Leagerie, Fred. O' Donovan; Laeg, Sydney Morgan; Emer, Sara
Allgood; Conal's Wife, Maire O'Neill; Leagerie's Wife, Eileen O'
Doherty; Red Man, Ambrose Power; Horseboys, Scullions, and Black Men,
S. Hamilton, T. J. Fox, U. Wright, D. Robertson, T. O'Neill, I. A.
O'Rourke, P. Kearney.
Peter Gillan, Mr. W. G. Fay.
Miss Maude Gonne played very finely, and her great height made Cathleen
seem a divine being fallen into our mortal infirmity. Since then
the part has been twice played in America by women who insisted on
keeping their young faces, and one of these when she came to the door
dropped her cloak, as I have been told, and showed a white satin
dress embroidered with shamrocks. Upon another,--or was it the same
occasion? --the player of Bridget wore a very becoming dress of the time
of Louis the Fourteenth. The most beautiful woman of her time, when
she played my Cathleen, 'made up' centuries old, and never should the
part be played but with a like sincerity. This was the first play of
our Irish School of folk-drama, and in it that way of quiet movement
and careful speech which has given our players some little fame first
showed itself, arising partly out of deliberate opinion and partly out
of the ignorance of the players. Does art owe most to ignorance or
to knowledge? Certainly it comes to its deathbed full of knowledge.
I cannot imagine this play, or any folk-play of our school, acted by
players with no knowledge of the peasant, and of the awkwardness and
stillness of bodies that have followed the plough, or too lacking in
humility to copy these things without convention or caricature.
The lines beginning 'Do not make a great keening' and 'They shall be
remembered for ever' are said or sung to an air heard by one of the
players in a dream. This music is with the other music at the end of
the third volume.
APPENDIX III
_THE GOLDEN HELMET. _
_The Golden Helmet_ was produced at the Abbey Theatre on March 19,
1908, with the following cast:--Cuchulain, J. M. Kerrigan; Conal, Arthur
Sinclair; Leagerie, Fred. O' Donovan; Laeg, Sydney Morgan; Emer, Sara
Allgood; Conal's Wife, Maire O'Neill; Leagerie's Wife, Eileen O'
Doherty; Red Man, Ambrose Power; Horseboys, Scullions, and Black Men,
S. Hamilton, T. J. Fox, U. Wright, D. Robertson, T. O'Neill, I. A.
O'Rourke, P. Kearney.
