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Predictably Proud. There remained another high moment in the life and times of John Fitzgerald Kennedy: the baptism of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. As the Rev. Martin J. Casey, S.J., pastor of Holy Trinity Church, intoned the words, John Jr. was held by Godmother Martha Bartlett, wife of Chattanooga Times Reporter Charles Bartlett, who was present as a stand-in for Godfather Prince Stanislas Radziwill, husband of Jackie's sister and away in London. Jackie Kennedy was predictably proud of her tiny (6 Ib. 3 oz.) son, dressed in the christening gown his father had worn 43 years...
...Plough and the Stars (by Sean O'Casey) stands in the very first rank of modern plays. Among O'Casey's own, only Juno and the Paycock can challenge it; but though Juno has more memorable characters and richer comedy, its tragedy is dented with willful, stagy melodrama, where in The Plough and the Stars, tragedy and comedy are locked in an unshatterable embrace. In The Plough O'Casey found, if no better materials for tragedy, then an apter moment. Under the stress of turbulent historic events, amid the gunfire and bloodshed of the 1916 Easter...
...Plough and the Stars is a properly orchestrated tragedy, but less a tragedy of war or even of civil war than of national character, of all that is left undone in working to achieve a great objective and then is too badly managed to achieve it. For O'Casey, even in 1926, there was still real use in crying over spilt blood. But, never gnawing a thesis, he made his tragedy vibrate with harsh humor and pulse with humanity...
...Sean O'Casey's Drums Under the Window is a lilting work that makes golden use of the English language. With this exception, however, the downtown offerings generally range from pretentious to overtly sheckel-minded. An example of a play with static ideas and superficial newness is Genet's The Balcony, one of off-Broadway's biggest hits. Despite its pretensions of originality, it bogs down in a miasma of unreality and philosophical despair. The play first states that men patronize brothels not for sexual satisfaction, but in order to fulfill self-illusions; to try to translate their dreamworlds into...
Ironically, the one outstanding play of the season has been O'Casey's. In its dignity, freshness, and language, it is the antithesis of stilted and mechanically "avant-garde" off-Broadway. Hopefully its success will indicate that tourist theater cannot totally swallow up decent theater downtown...