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...Brun's series on The Elements, which ransacked classical mythology to celebrate the events in Louis XIV's reign. One of the most famous, L'Air, drew from the full range of the factory's 79 colors to depict, in wool, gold and silk threads, Juno, the goddess of marriage, rebuffing Boreas, the god of the north wind in Greek mythology. Courtiers understood that the real subject was Louis' marriage to Marie-Therese of Spain, which had brought to an end France's 25-year war with that country...
...Dublin blocked performance of The Drums of Father Ned, and in retaliation Sean O'Casey, 83, announced that nevermore would any of his plays be produced professionally in the Republic of Ireland. But Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre is due to perform two of his works-Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars-next year in London at a drama festival of companies from all over Europe. Naturally they want to do the plays justice, and they have asked permission to produce them in Dublin for a two or three weeks' trial...
...even a great Dane ranging through the cornfields. But for speed, range, endurance and nose, no dog matches the pointer. A good pointer can scent a bird 100 yds. away. He will hold a quivering point for half an hour or more, and once a pair of pointers named Juno and Pluto stood frozen for a full hour and a quarter while an artist painted their portraits...
...wrong author: O'Casey's prickly-pear mixture of the gay and the grim, the heartless and the sentimental is often awkward enough. But, then, Richard III is no pip and Abbott did well enough by that, and with, generally speaking, a much less effective cast. Lynn Milgrim, the Juno of this Juno, for instance, could not be better: business-like in her work, gruff in her joy, searing in her grief. Patricia Fay is an honest, spirited Mary Boyle, at once demure and uncompromising. Sheila Forde who appears briefly as the bereaved Mrs. Tancred, impresses one with the genuineness...
...present purposes, admirable: the Boyle flat is both austere and serviceable; ugly, but not off-putting. And the lighting, eminently professional, as is all lighting by Jonathan F. Warburg, complements, and compliments, it. Why, then--and I trust you will forgive this spate of rhetorical questions--is this Juno for all its sparks of incandescence, such a flickering candle? I can think of some three reasons, at the moment. 1.) The pacing, particularly in the first two acts, is entirely too slow--almost lackadaisical. 2.) There is little attempt to force the Boyles and their friends to relate...