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Just reading about him recently because of Eoin O'Duffy:

“Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit: touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately, in England at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.”

Suck Diesel and perhaps the same could be said today!

Via www.dib.ie/biography/macliammoir-micheal-a5053 , birthplace on 25 October 1899 at 150 Purves Road, Willesden, London NW10 - www.google.com/maps/place/150+Purves+Rd,+London+NW10+5TG,...

Just one of the things the perennially busy Mac Liammóir was occupied with in 1953. From the Tipperary Star, 15 August 1953...

SILVER JUBILEE
On the 22nd August, Micheál Mac Liammóir returns to Galway to prepare for the production of his "Diarmaid agus Grainne" in the Taibhdhearch, on the occasion of that theatre's Silver Jubilee. An Taibhdhearch opened in September 1928, and its first production was "Diarmaid agus Grainne," which Mac Liammóir had completed the previous year. He began writing the play in 1925, and worked at it in Howth, Paris, Munich, and on a steamboat going up the Rhine from Mainz to Coblenz. He has made certain alterations in the script, deleting some passages and adding new material for the Jubilee production. The part of Diarmaid is taken by Padraig O Ceallaigh, a young army officer. The same part was taken in 1928 by Proinsias Mac Diarmada, who was then also in the Army, in the Irish-speaking Battalion. Treasa Nic Oirealla is taking the part of Grainne.

P.S. who knew that we had an Irish-speaking Battalion back then?!

Moncrieff made highly successful gramophone recordings in Australia for the Columbia Graphophone Co. between 12 October 1928 and 4 June 1935. She was a regular visitor to the company studios at Homebush, Sydney, making eighty-four titles that were released on either Regal, Regal-Zonophone or Columbia labels as ten-inch discs. These well-known musical comedy favorites sold far better than similar material by many famous overseas artists. Most of these recordings were reissued by EMI Records Australia and enjoyed healthy sales. Gladys Moncrieff had a powerful, wide-ranging, rich soprano voice, and excellent diction. Undemonstrative in behavior, she approached her singing like a craft, meticulously and unostentatiously. She dressed simply and did not shun menial tasks. Her large, informal parties were memorable for her superb cooking, especially for her pie with seventy dozen oysters. Perhaps it was also her sense of fun and tender-heartedness that attracted her large following of 'gallery girls', women who queued for standing room and followed her movements with flowers and mail. She became a legend in Australia in her lifetime, respected by her professional colleagues, and loved by her devoted public. Her autobiography, My Life of Song (Adelaide, 1971), was ghosted by Lillian Palmer. Source: adb.anu.edu.au/biography/moncrieff-gladys-lillian-7621

William Harrison Hays Sr. (/heɪz/; November 5, 1879 – March 7, 1954) was an American Republican politician and chairman of MPPDA

Douglas Elton Fairbanks Sr.[1] (born Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman; May 23, 1883 – December 12, 1939) was an American actor and filmmaker.[2] He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films including The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro, but spent the early part of his career making comedies.

James Edward West (1876-1948) www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6133242 Edward Burton DeGroot (1872-1949) www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116194006

An earlier Jas E West in the Bain stream looks to be the same man:


He is James Edward West (1876-1948), lawyer and advocate of children's rights who served as Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America from 1911-1943.

See this picture at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hays,_DeGroot,_Fairbanks,...
with description, "Scouting enthusiasts (from left), Will H. Hays, chairman of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, E. B. DeGroot, scouting official for Los Angeles, actor Douglas Fairbanks, and James E. West, Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), on page 34 of the March 7, 1925 Exhibitors Herald." and a link to archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald20unse/page/n1151/mod...

The description in the magazine is: "Enthusiastic boosters of the Boy Scout movement— Douglas Fairbanks and Will H. Hays. This picture shows them with James E. West, chief Scout executive (extreme right) and E. B. DeGroot, Scout official of Los Angeles. After completing 'Don Q,' Fairbanks plans to make a Scout film."

Thanks Luc Brocard, Richard Norton, & swanq. We'll update the catalog record.