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...consequences are not the same: where at last the Paycock lies sodden among a ruined family, Con, among a rising one, is both broken and reborn-enough Americanized to raise a glass to the plebeian Andrew Jackson. In both plays the character is superior to the action: where in Juno and the Paycock there is too much contrived melodrama for inevitable tragedy, in Poet there is too much lurking farce for great drama. In its half-dozen best scenes, A Touch of the Poet has a tense, grandly flaring quality of theater. But there are not only letdowns of both...
Flowery Charms. "Weak" was hardly the word for either creature. Mme. de Staël was a carthorse Juno with a passionate imagination: she could talk for hours on any given subject without pausing to breathe. Her lovers were so numerous that they ran concurrently, like prison sentences. Mme. Récamier, on the other hand, was bright and lovely as a peacock and quick as a lizard at dodging through chinks. "She liked to stop everything in April," said Critic Sainte-Beuve with French delicacy-meaning that Mme. Récamier drove men half-crazy by drawing them hopelessly...
...Juno and the Paycock (Angel, 2 LPs). With a foreword by Playwright Sean O'Casey, one of the century's great tragicomedies boils up again from the Dublin slums. Siobhan McKenna, as Juno, has in her voice all the ache and sorrow of Cathleen Ni Houlihan; Seamus Kavanagh makes his Captain a lovable buffoon for most of three acts and - at the right moment - turns him into a villain; Cyril Cusack whines and wheedles his way magnificently into the role of Joxer Daly...
Your article "The Passing of McCarthy" [May 13] was well written, well documented and objective. His last years must have been like those of Boyle and Joxer Daly, those other two friends of John Barleycorn in Juno and the Paycock. They, too, saw "the whole worl's in a state o' chassis...
...presented some 40 shows this season, seems certain to crack last year's record of 68. Still to come: George Bernard Shaw's Good King Charles's Golden Days, Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock, and a musical version of Tom Sawyer...