Word: joans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Siobhan McKenna, between her stints in New York as Saint Joan, returned Sunday to Sanders Theatre--the scene of her first triumph last August--to present "An Afternoon With the Irish Poets" under the auspices of the Poets' Theatre. The result was one of the largest throngs within memory. A few hundred of those who lacked foresight enough to obtain tickets far in advance were lucky and happy to get into Memorial Hall just to hear Miss McKenna's voice piped over a loud-speaker...
...York is fortunate to have her for still another month, in the title roles of Saint Joan and Hamlet, before she returns to her country--a great actress, scholar and musician, and a great human being...
When George Bernard Shaw and Giacomo Puccini brightened TV screens last week, the countinghouse critics scoffed; CULTURE GETS TRENDEX SHELLACKING headlined Variety. Indeed, the 90-minute live Hallmark Hall of Fame production of Shaw's Man and Superman, starring Maurice Evans and Joan Greenwood, ran behind its opposition with a Trendex rating of 12. And the Ed Sullivan Show fell off eight points to 33 as it featured Prima Donna Maria Meneghini Callas and Baritone George London in an 18-minute scene from Tosca...
Married. Joni James (real name: Joan Carmella Babbo), 26, tiny (5 ft. 1 in.) jukebox thrush (Your Cheatin' Heart); and Anthony Acquaviva, 30, her manager; in Manhattan...
Miss McKenna appeared in the Cambridge Drama Festival performance of Shaw's "St. Joan," this summer. The program of readings will be her last public performance in this country before she returns to Ireland for an indefinite time...