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...Juno and the Paycock (by Sean O'Casey; produced by Edward Choate & Arthur Shields in association with Robert Edmond Jones). Flung on the Broadway pavement many times since it was minted in Dublin in 1924, Juno and the Paycock still rings out like a silver coin. Whatever its faults, there is nothing pinched or paltry about it. Its stagecraft is clumsy at times and its plot too theatrical, but its background is richly Irish and its two middle-aged title characters-sturdy, ill-used, valiant-hearted Juno and her strutting, shiftless, drunken Paycock of a husband-are abundantly alive...
...Juno Films). For the spectacular rise of the French cinema in the years before World War II, the men most responsible have been a handful of able directors. These directors usually did not develop special talent for the camera but made movies that attracted and used the seasoned acting personnel of the French theatre. For The End of a Day, a photographic plate recording with sharp sensitivity the emotional atmosphere of a home for retired actors, Director Julien Duvivier (Poil de Carotte, Un Cornet de Bal) recruited a cast that includes many a distinguished veteran of the Paris stage, headed...
Sean O'Casey is the author of Juno and the Paycock, The Plough and the Stars, many another realistically wild Irish play about the lives of Ireland's poor. Less successful is this "autobiography," which covers only the first twelve years of his life. Gist: "Well, he'd learned poethry and had kissed a girl ... if he hadn' gone into the house, he had knocked at the door...
...Juno and the Paycock" again stimulates Boston audiences with its candid humor soon lost in trenchant satire and irony, and capped by unmitigated and all-pervasive tragedy. Sean O'Casey has chosen 1922 for his grim picture, when much of the actual fighting in Ireland was over, but men were known for their deeds and their sympathies. He sets up a family from the slums of Dublin, and through them he lashes at principles stubbornly adhered to only because they are principles, the folly of romantic and aimless sacrifice, the spirit of brotherly love and humanity that fails as soon...
...takes over the role of "Captain" Jack Boyle, the tawdry "paycock," and superbly prevents the depravity of his role from becoming lost in its amusing elements. The latter are dangerously prominent, since the first act of the tragedy is pure comedy. Eileen Crowe is superb for the role of "Juno" Boyle, who receives her divinely regal name for the internal reason that everything in her life happened in June, but for dramatic reasons less fortuitous. F. J. McCormick has created his part of "Joxer" Daly, the fawning hanger-on and salve to the Captain's petty pride, and his rendition...