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...play is more than ever a star vehicle, since only star fire will kindle the dramatic deadwood. As Joan, Ellen Geer puts her teeth into the part and not much else. There have been earthy peasant Joans (Siobhan McKenna) and eternal-child Joans (Julie Harris). At a guess, Director Douglas Campbell or Actress Geer conceived of the saint as tomboy. This tomboy Joan wants to conquer the English at Orleans for the sheer roughhousing fun of it. Thus, when she is captured, imprisoned and questioned by her inquisitors, it is merely as if her playmates were being taken away from...
...McKenna Sand Pebbles...
Yesterday's vote was 21 to 11 against the veto, with 17 Democrats and four Republicans opposing the Governor and five Democrats and six Republicans supporting him. Sen. Denis L. McKenna (D-Somerville), who filed the bill, moved reconsideration, which requires only a plurality to be approved...
Although Crane said that the result of a referendum "would be unpredictable," McKenna predicted that PR would be defeated by 1000 votes. In a 1961 referendum--the most recent of four--PR won by 502 votes...
...McKenna called PR "a ridiculous form of government" and added, "The sooner we do away with it, the better." He expressed the hope that the legislature would vote along party lines, since almost two-thirds of the Senators and Representatives are Democrats...