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...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...
...year scholarship at Manhattan's Neighborhood Playhouse. Broadway Producer Guthrie McClintic saw him and signed him for a last-act bit in the road tour of Katharine Cornell's The Doctor's Dilemma. On that tour, Peck met and later married Greta Konen, a tiny, bright-blonde Finnish girl who was Cornell's hairdresser...
After a dreary series of revivals, summer stock and out-of-town closings, McClintic gave him a role in a 1942 Broadway show, Emlyn Williams' The Morning Star. The show soon folded, but the critics had some nice things to say about a new juvenile named Gregory Peck...
...there is little sprawl and no congestion, and things turn dull only where Shakespeare himself has let history nose out drama. Moreover, under Guthrie McClintic's perceptive direction, this Antony and Cleopatra properly brims over with worldliness, cynical wit, self-seeking and double-dealing...