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...billed stars of the production, Helen McCloskey and Ted Allegretti were expected to--and did--carry the weight. Mrs. McCloskey started out with such speed that she swallowed many of her lines; as she developed the part of Juno she caught some of the almost cruel indomitability with which she holds her rotting family together. She never approached, though, the real intensity which the role offers, her famous closing speech in particular falling below standard in what was evidently an attempt to avoid repetition of style...
...Allegretti, too, got some and only some of his part. He played it for humor--and he got just that. Credit must not be denied Allegretti for the laughs at which he aimed: he got them, acting, indeed, with more skill than anyone else in the cast if also with more mugging and audience-facing. But his comedy was of an almost slapstick variety at times, never fulfilling its tragic implications for his family and his country, his style ranging as far as bombast toward the middle of the last act and mawkishness toward the close...
...production, which ends its five-day run Saturday with a matinee and evening performance, has Theodore Allegretti '47 and Helen McClosky starring in roles of "Captain" Jack Boyle and Juno Boyle, his wife...
...Theodore Allegretti '47 as "Captain" Jack Boyle; Helen McCloskey as Juno Boyle; Robert C. Seaver '50 as Johnny Boyle; Barbara Nathan, Radcliffe '48, as Mary Boyle; Walter Frank '49, as "Joxer" Daly; Mary Flannery as Mrs. Mary Madigan; Christopher Martin '49 as "Needles" Nugent...
WHDH will broadcast preview scenes from "Juno and the Paycock," forth-coming Harvard Dramatic Club production, tomorrow night at 10:30 o'clock. The radio performance of Sean O'Casey's comedy will feature Theodore P. Allegretti '47 and Helen McCloskey in selected passages, plus interviews with the stars and director of the play...