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Show 8 K The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, August 8, 1982 Brooklyns J. P. Donleavy likes Monroe estate 1 Brooklyn-bor- n EDITOR'S NOTE J. P. Donleavy, best known as the author of 'The Ginoer Man," has as Ireland his home. Here, the expatriate adopted writer explains why, beginning with the lure of a special Irish tax advantage. growing (AP) HOLLYWOOD -T- By Charles J. Hanley Associated Press Writer estate is earning of dollars thousands by licensing the late Hollywood stars image. Miss Monroe had part owhership in some of her late movies, and fees from television and video cassette uses of those films also continue to embellish the Monroe estate. J. P. Donleavy, the MULLINGAR, Ireland g expatriate, Brooklyn firemans son and sits in manorial splendor in greenest Ireland, regretting that he is missing all the action in his American homeland. But only for a moment. If Id stayed in America, I might be buried by now, he says. Its too tough. I dont know how I would have survived. classic Hie author of the black-humThe Ginger Man survives quite comfortably in his adopted Ireland, thanks in great measure to the Finance Act of 1969, which gives authors, artists and status liere. composers tax-fre- e James Patrick Mike Donleavy, prolific writer of seven novels, four plays and two books of short beneficiaries of this fiction, is one of the better-know- n bit of Irish largesse. Why He Emigrated and taxes, he tells a visitor in explaining Money why he sttled in Ireland for good in 1969 and became an Irish citizen. The mercenary spirit often animates the plots of Donleavy novels as well. Money has always played a large role in ones books, he acknowledges with n candor. Donleavys domain is Levington Park, a e spread of paddock, pasture and woodland sloping down to the blue sparkle of Lough Owel, outside this town 50 miles west of Dublin. Crowning Levington manor house, Queen Parks hill is a lordly gray-ston- e Anne vintage, of about 25 or so rooms. Here the bewhiskered, author resides with his second wife, Mary, their two n show children, an Irish wolfhound, a and a horses and a hundred head of beef cattle shelf-fu- ll of fictional characters who have drawn a devoted following over three decades. novel-writin- The money goes to the estate of Lee Strasberg, Miss Monroes acting mentor, and Marianne Kris, her psychiatrist, who willed her share to th Hampstead Child Therapy Clinic of London. attorney Roger Rich-ma- n represents the estates of Miss Monroe, W.C. Fields, Abbott and Costello and other deceased stars for merchandizing and other purposes. He also represents the Elvis Presley estate. i . third-perso- 180-acr- - $khtnan said tothe 10 licensing averages percent of the wholesale price- - of the products. Rdums to the Monroe estate from licensing are expected to amount to five Or six figures annually,' said Richman. half-doze- : j Danger-fiel- Hie Ginger Man until after it was a hit in Europe. In America, he said, an author is generally considered as someone getting up to bat to smack a stout your entire wold must then come to exist in your own dreams and imagination. Doesnt he miss the States? One realizes theres part of life that youre somehow missing," he sayus. Youre aware that whatever happens to humanity first happens in America. be crosses the Atlantic frequently enough, Donleavy says, but you can only absorb so much of America because it is corrosive of the writing spirit. Its not a place where you can experiment. He noted he could not find a U.S. publisher for d, the amoral, deadbeat American whose raunchy escapades in postwar Dublin helped set the tone for a A succession of generation of fictional novels followed, sometimes cynical, sometimes A Singular Man, hopeful, always uproarious and Destinies of Darcy The Onion Eaters, Dancer, Gentleman. Donleavys play TTie Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B is currently delighting audiences in London, where Punch magazine called it one of the great comic creations of our time. Plans are being made to take this story of two young men, wild times and lost love to the United States. The Donleavy had strong personal ties here even before the Dublin Parliament decided 13 years ago to reward creativity with deductibility. anti-heroe- s. wenty years after her death, Marilyn Monroes It began with Ginger Man Sebastian life in Ireland tax-fr- ee home run. Unless he does this, he somehow is felt not to exist anymore. His image of the American writing profession is of a club where everyone is reading over everyone elses shoulder. But, for Donleavy, it wouldnt really concern me as to what is the latest book coming out. In fact, items in some of his favorite reading is chanced-upo- n medical journals and movie magazines. Irish-descend- ed AT SNOWBIRD Studied Zoology After studying zoology at Dublins Trinity College on die GI BiU, he completed The Ginger Man in 1951. But it was not published until 1955, first in France, then in expurgated form in Britain. He traveled between the States and Britain in the 1950s and 1960s before finally settling in Ireland. Most beautiful country in the world, the fictional Ginger Man said of his adopted island.' Stay here to die and never die. But the Emerald Isle is several steps short of paradise, says DuulcoVy. The pervasive atmosphere is that deep dampness, that cold, that chill. And inefficiency is the way of life somehow. Theres no way you can get ahead of yourself in Ireland. It requires enormous patience living here. The writer, long and lean, speaking in an accent now more Belgravia than Brooklyn, was interviewed in a sitting room of Levington Park, in g hearth. the sweet warmth of a 15th at 5 p.m. Sunday, $9August advance$10 at gate peat-burnin- Ferule Soil Rain or Shine What Ireland offers, especially to the writer, is fertile soil for the mind, Donleavy says. Just as in an Irish pub if you go inside youll find theres no embellishment of any description, nothing, its just literally a board upon which a pint ' of stout is presented to you. But within that pint of Tickets on sale now at: Cosmic Aeroplane, Snowbird, All ZCMI Datatix locations and The Salt Palace. i (HAWAIIAN J 4Jf SALT LAKE x - S 't f.y mrnmmm TODAY: fact ou - ir, , 'a. 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