Irish Belittled

Two able-bodied Irish matrons, Mrs. Murphy and Mrs. Callahan, hurl garbled Hibernian-English at each other over a backyard fence. They grab at each other's hair, throw pots and pans. They swat their children, who make love in cow-like fashion and threaten to entangle the two families in matrimonial alliances. In the end, of course, the children do get married.

To all true-blooded Irish men and women, such activity is neither funny nor characteristic--said the Irish World of New York last week. That newspaper demanded that all cinema producers and particularly the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Co. which filmed The Callahans and the Murphys cease to "hold the Irish people up to ridicule."

Meanwhile, Irish societies in the District of Columbia began a na tion-wide campaign to have such cinemas removed from theatres. The Maryland convention of the Ancient Order of Hibernians adopted two resolutions: 1) to condemn cinemas belittling the Irish; 2) to oppose the entry of the U. S. into the World Court.