Murphy’s Town Hall Cinema Athenry 14 Holmes. NB: German Director Fritz Lang made a very highly regarded 1928 movie with a similar title that is also an outside possibility for this screening. 5th January 1937 – Forgotten Men, a 1933 British International Pictures Documentary about WW1 was screened in the Hall by Billy Walsh’s Talkies (source: Hall Journal). NB: World War 1 veterans relate their experiences during the war and also discuss their present circumstances. 6th January 1937 – Bulldog Drummond a 1929 United Artists Crime Drama starring Ronald Colman, Joan Bennett, Claud Allister, Lawrence Grant and Montagu Love was screened in the Hall by Billy Walsh’s Talkies (source: Hall Journal). NB: This film was produced by Samuel Goldwyn. Ronald Colman was actually married to fellow actor, Benita Hume, star of Paramount Pictures 1933 Film Gambling Ship, screened on 2nd October 1934, see above. 26th February 1937 – Over The Garden Wall, a 1934 Associated British Pictures Romantic Comedy starring Bobby Howes and Margaret Bannerman was screened in the Hall by Billy Walsh Talkies (source: Hall Journal). Southern Star 30th July 1938 carried the following background note on page 12, under the heading Snaps from Schull: “BILLY WALSH'S Talkies are... in Schull, and are presenting a picture programme for three nights in the CYMS Hall. Some first-class shows are being exhibited, including the Farr-Braddock Fight and the Adventures of Tarzan. Large audiences are availing of the opportunity to see these pictures.” 2nd April 1937 – Storm over the Andes, a 1935 Universal Pictures Adventure Film starring Jack Holt, Antonio Moreno, Mona Barrie, Gene Lockhart and Grant Withers was screened in the Hall by Carron Brothers (source: Hall Journal). 4th April 1937 – A Face in the Fog, a 1936 Victory Pictures Corporation Mystery movie starring June Collyer, Lloyd Hughes and Lawrence Gray was screened in the Hall by Carron Brothers (source: Hall Journal). 21st June 1937 – The Singer of Seville (aka Call of the Flesh) a 1930 MGM Musical starring Ramon Novarro, Dorothy Jordan and Renée Adorée was screened in the Hall by Carron Brothers (source: Hall Journal). 25 24th June 1937 – Ourselves Alone (aka River of Unrest), a 1936 British International Pictures Drama, set against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, starring John Lodge, John Loder, Antoinette Cellier, Niall MacGinnis and Máire O’Neill was screened in the Hall by Billy Walsh Talkies (source: Hall Journal). NB: John Loder, real name William John Muir Lowe, was the son of Major General WHM Lowe, who was in command of the British Forces in Ireland during the 1916 Easter Rising and who accepted the surrender of PH Pearse. Loder/Lowe was a 2nd Lieutenant in the British Army and was actually with his father when PH Pearse, (accompanied by Nurse Elizabeth O’Farrell), surrendered. 26 28th June 1937 – Sitting On The Moon, a 1936 Republic Pictures Comedy was screened in the Hall by Carron Brothers (source: Hall Journal). It stars Grace Bradley, Roger Pryor and Pert Kelton. 12th July 1937 – Mark of the Vampire, a 1935 Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) Horror movie was screened in the Hall by Carron Brothers (source: Hall Journal). It stars Bela Lugosi, Carroll Borland, Lionel Barrymore, Lionel Atwill, Elizabeth Allan and Henry Wadsworth. 26th July 1937 – A Son Comes Home, a 1936 Paramount Pictures Drama starring Mary Boland, Julie Haydon and Donald Woods was screened in the Hall by Carron Brothers (source: Hall Journal). 2nd August 1937 – The Preview Murder Mystery, a 1936 Paramount Pictures Comedy Mystery movie was screened in the Hall by Carron Brothers (source: Hall Journal). It stars Reginald Denny, Frances Drake and Gail Patrick. 9th August 1937 – The Case of Gabriel Perry, a 1935 British Lion Films Crime Drama starring Henry Oscar, Olga Lindo and Margaret Lockwood was screened in the Hall by Carron Brothers (source: Hall Journal). 18th August 1937 – Public Hero Number 1, a 1935 MGM Crime drama was screened in the Hall by Carron Brothers (source: Hall Journal). It stars Lionel Barrymore, Jean Arthur, Chester Morris and Joseph Calleia. 10th September 1937 – Million Dollar Ransom, a 1934 Universal Pictures Gangster Film was screened in the Hall by Billy Walsh Talkies (source: Hall Journal). It stars Phillips Holmes, Edward Arnold, Mary Carlisle, Wini Shaw, Andy Devine and Robert Gleckler. 25 MGM stands for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer formed by Marcus Loews’ merging of 3 film companies in 1924 26 The film debuted in the Grafton Picture House, Dublin on 5th June 1936 and ran for 5 weeks to packed houses. John Loder was married to Hedy Lamarr, (real name Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler), from 1943 to 1947 and they had 3 children together.
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