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In 1931 a man named Otto Kahn advanced £1000 towards an Abbey tour of America. On the first tour we did John Ferguson and The Whiteheaded Boy . Peter [F.J. McCormick] loved it. He was interested in everything, and America was something in those days. New York was a wonderful city, but most of us felt that if we were going to live in America it would be in San Francisco. When we returned in 1936 to make the film of The Plough and the Stars in Hollywood, Dudley Digges, who had already settled there and was very kind to us, said: ‘Listen, don’t stay in Hollywood when you finish the picture. Go home. They want you there. But if you want to come back later, then come back.’ Of course, when we arrived home Peter and I did not want to go back. Both of us were always home birds.
Des Hickey and Gus Smith, A Paler Shade of Green (London: Leslie Frewin, 1972) pp. 37–42.
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For more on McCormick see Gabriel Fallon, ‘F. J. McCormick: An Appreciation’, Studies (Dublin), 36 (June 1947) 180–6;
Gabriel Fallon, The Abbey and the Actor (Dublin: The National Theatre Society, 1969) pp. 53–7;
‘F. J. McCormick: A Symposium of Tributes’, Capuchin Annual (Dublin), 1948, pp. 149–225.
Cf. ‘There was a dreadful day in the spring of 1921 when the Company had to be dismissed by me.… One actor, F.J. McCormick, sold all his books to keep himself alive’ (Lennox Robinson, Ireland’s Abbey Theatre: A History 1899–1951 (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1951) p. 120).
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Crowe, E. (1988). F.J. McCormick. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) The Abbey Theatre. Interviews and Recollections. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08508-8_45
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