Word: mcclintics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another Rosemary Casy won a $5,000 award for "The Velvet Gloves" before it was produced, but she was not satisfied with merely the plaudits of the Christopher prize. She approached Guthrie McClintic who agreed to produce and direct the play, Donald Ocnslager '23, who agreed to do the setting, and then she went about getting Grace George out of a seven year retirement to play the leading part...
...present production is under a new producer and director, Guthric McClintic, and we have him to thank for many of the improvements. The part of Jason, played by Henry Brandon is better handled, though still undefined. The chorus of three Corinthian women has happily not been recruited from the ranks of the subway money-changers, as seemed to be the case in the earlier production. Gone is their folksy quality perhaps, but the dialogue has benefited. On the debit side, there are two actors playing Creon and Aegeus who either have dental difficulties or misapplied crepe beards. Much of what...
...Euripides, Medea is seen at the last escaping to Athens with the bodies of her two children. And, probably since 431 B.C., moralists have been objecting to her apparent escape from punishment and retribution. I trust Mr. McClintic did not have this moral objection in mind when he altered the ending to have Medea merely standing over her children's corpses. The script has not been changed: she still talks of escaping, but the audience does...
...very often that a Shakespeare revival gets as high praise as Katherine Cornell and Guthrie McClintic's "Antony and Cleopatra." Reading the superlatives leaves anyone acquainted with Shakespeare or with acting standards in a quandary after he sees the play: how can he reconcile the rave reviews with the obvious and fatal shortcomings of the current production...
...McClintic uses standard devices to clear up plot troubles. A few cuts here and there, a minimum number of transpositions, and some scenes played in front of the curtain are employed successfully to keep the action understandable and more or less continuous. The only bad cut is at the very end, which is foolishly speeded-up. The general style and the acting, rather that the plot, are the play in any case...