Athenry Town Hall 1907 - 1976

Murphy’s Town Hall Athenry 19  A Soul’s Awakening  The Vagabond King (aka If I Were King, by Irish author Justin Huntly McCarthy)  Her Compulsory Husband, a Comedy by Larry C. Johnson  The Magnificent Lie  The Betrayal  Frankenstein, adapted from Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s 1818 Gothic novel  Pal of My Cradle Days 26th December 1932 – The Hall hosted a Golf Club Committee Dance (source: Hall Journal). 6th January 1933 – R Murphy and J O’Flynn Cinderella Dance in the Hall (source: Hall Journal). 8th to 9th January 1933 – Our Boy’s Club performed Love Or Money in the Hall (source: Hall Journal). 10th to 12th January 1933 – Messrs Carron Brothers Travelling Picture Company showed 3 movies in the Hall (source: Hall Journal):  The Millionaire (1931) starring George Arliss (NB: a young James Cagney also features)  Argyle Case (1929) starring Thomas Meighan, Lila Lee, John Darrow & Zasu Pitts  The Hottentot (1929) starring Edward Everett Horton & Patsy Ruth Miller 13th to 17th January 1933 – Crazy Nights Travelling Variety Show in the Hall (source: Hall Journal). 5th February 1933 – Jas. Ruane Athenry held a Victory Dance in the Hall (source: Hall Journal). 24th to 27th February 1933 – Messrs Daniels Travelling Picture Company screened the following movies in the Hall (source: Hall Journal):  The Showboat (1929)  All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)  Broadway (1929)  Dracula (1931) 17th March 1933 – J Doherty held a Ceilidhe in the Hall (source: Hall Journal). 16th 17th April 1933 – Athenry Dramatic Club performed a play called In the Days of the Tans by Maeve Kavanagh (source: Hall Journal). 7th May 1933 – D Cooley and James Barrett of Athenry, held a Ceilidhe dance in the Hall (source: Hall Journal). 8th to 10th May 1933 – Messrs Carron Brothers Travelling Picture Company showed movies, including the following (source: Hall Journal):  The Gorilla, (1930) starring Joe Frisco, Harry Gribbon, Walter Pidgeon and Lila Lee  The Girl of the Golden West (1930) Western starring Ann Harding and James Rennie  Eucharistic Congress (1932) British Pathé newsreel 5th to 11th June 1933 – Paul Terry’s People’s Popular Players performed 7 nights in the Hall with a different play on each night, including the following (source: Hall Journal):  Bought and Paid For, by Paul Terry  Yellow Justice  Taming a Wife, adaptation by Eric Stuart  Green Goddess, by Paul Terry & John Dunphy  This Beats All, by Eric Stuart 21st July 1933 – Wm L Dobell Travelling Company performed 3 plays in the Hall, across 3 successive nights (source: Hall Journal):  What happened at 9:45, by Owen Davis & Sewell Collins  The Creaking Door, by Elizabeth Sheridan  Lend Me Your Wife, a by Fred Duprez 10th to 13th August 1933 – Metropolitan Players (Louis D’alton) performed 4 nights in the Hall (source: Hall Journal):  Maura My Girl, by Louis D’alton  Little Grey Hare, by Frank Dalton

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