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...Winifred Lenihan was selected by the Guild to play Joan, despite obvious physical demerits. She is small, not the least masculine. Yet, looking back, it is impossible to picture the play without her performance. It seemed spiritually inspired, valiantly sustained, utterly convincing. The remainder of the cast maintain the enviable standard of the Guild productions. The designing in settings and costumes by Raymond Sovey rank at the head of the season's stage investitures...
There is one thing which the Theatre Guild can be trusted to do well; that is, casting. Jacob Ben Ami and Winifred Lenihan (who did well as Anne Hathaway in Will Shakespeare) offer two performances as fine as anything in the current Theatre. Masterly interpretations in minor parts are supplied by favorite players of many Guild productions, viz.: Dudley Digges, Henry Travers, Helen Westley...
...heroine situation is more encouraging. Helen Menken, Helen Gahagen, Margalo Gilmore, Winifred Lenihan, Katherine Cornell have all turned the earlier corners that mark the narrow road to greatness. Each one of these can show an American birth certificate. They are by no means alone in their eminence. Six or eight bright flashes from an even younger generation disturbed the calm of the season. Decidedly, there are abundant actresses...
WILL SHAKESPEARE-Shakespeare is represented as a sort of divine sponge. When properly squeezed by a woman, an immortal play trickles out. Squeezing is done by the overpossessive wife whom he deserts (Winifred Lenihan); by Queen Elizabeth (Haidee Wright) ; and chiefly by the " dark lady of the sonnets " (Katherine Cornell). It is these three stirring performers who make Will Shakespeare excellent...