Murphy’s Town Hall Cinema Athenry 17 2nd August 1938 – Galway County Council Receipt 241, in respect of a Cinematographic Licence issued to Dick Murphy on this date, is shown here on the right. 4th August 1938 – Lloyd's of London, a 1936 Twentieth Century Fox Drama was screened in the Hall by Carron Brothers (source: the Hall Journal). Freddie Bartholomew, Tyrone Power, Madeleine Carroll, George Sanders and Guy Standing star. 8th August 1938 – The Suicide Club (aka Trouble for Two), a 1936 MGM Mystery movie was screened in the Hall by Carron Brothers (source: Hall Journal). It stars Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell. NB: The screenplay was based on a collection of 3 short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in the London Magazine in 1878. 9th August 1938 – Ireland a Nation, a 1914 Gaelic Films Silent Film, written, directed and produced by Walter MacNamara (from New York), recounting selections from the History of Ireland, in the period between 1798 and 1914, was screened in the Hall by Carron Brothers (source: Hall Journal). The cast includes Barry O'Brien, Patrick Ennis and Dominick Reilly. The film was first screened in Ireland just 8 months after the Easter 1916 Rebellion: 29 “Notification from the producers of Ireland a Nation picture at the Rotunda was received today... to withdraw the advertisement from our paper... in accordance with an order from the military authorities. Huge crowds have been attracted to every performance... About 2 o’clock today the order was issued that it should be withdrawn. Later on a man on a ladder was engaged tearing down the large poster headed Ireland a Nation – for one week only.” 30 16th August 1938 – Top of the Town, a 1937 Universal Pictures Musical Comedy was screened in the Hall by Carron Brothers (source: Hall Journal). It stars Doris Nolan, George Murphy and Ella Logan. NB: “The Giant Musical Show” 17th August 1938 – The Great O’Malley, a 1937 Warner Bros Gangster Film was screened in the Hall by Carron Brothers (source: Hall Journal). Pat O'Brien, Sybil Jason, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Frieda Inescort and Donald Crisp star in this film. 26th August 1938 – His Affair (aka This Is My Affair), a 1937 Twentieth Century Fox Crime Drama starring Robert Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy and John Carradine was screened in the Hall by Carron Brothers (source: Hall Journal). NB: Page 12 of the Kilkenny People, 10th September 1938, carries an advertisement for this same film showing in the Savoy Cinema, Kilkenny at around about this same time: “...a breathlessly, exciting and tremendous drama, tells an appealing love story. It is the story of a young Officer who is given a secret mission by the President of the United States. He is to discover who is behind a series of Bank robberies. No one else knows of his mission. He can appeal to no one for help except the President. When his life is endangered, he writes to the President, but the letter never reaches him, for the President has been assassinated. What a situation! This is but one of the ingenious twists in this absorbing story.” 3rd September 1938 – Boys Will Be Girls, a 1937 Leslie Fuller Productions Comedy was screened in the Hall by Carron Brothers (source: Hall Journal). Leslie Fuller, Nellie Wallace and Greta Gynt star in this film. NB: Oslo born, Norwegian actress Greta Gynt is credited here as Greta Woxholt (her real name being Margrethe Woxholt). She adopted the professional surname, Gynt, from Grieg’s, Peer Gynt Suite. 4th September 1938 – One in a Million, a 1936 Twentieth Century Fox Musical Comedy starring Sonja Henie, Adolphe Menjou and Don Ameche was screened in the Hall by Carron Brothers (source: Hall Journal). 12th September 1938 – Bullets or Ballots, a 1936 Warner Bros Gangster Film was screened in the Hall by Carron Brothers (source: Hall Journal). Edward G Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane and Humphrey Bogart star in this film. 17th September 1938 – Think Fast Mr Moto, a 1937 Twentieth Century Fox Mystery Film was screened in the Hall by Carron Brothers (source: the Hall Journal). Peter Lorre stars (as Mr Moto), along with Virginia Field, Thomas Beck and Sig Ruman. 29 “...one print of the film sank with the Lusitania in May 1915 delaying the first Irish screening... for over 18 months.” Irish Cinema – Brian McIlroy, page 10 30 From the Front Page of the Evening Herald, 10th January 1917, headed City Sensation – Picture Banned – Exhibition in All Ireland Prohibited
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