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...pivotal peculator Count La Ruse. His control and taste lapse only at rare moments, and he has considerable authority, elegance, and brio besides. As his mistress and nemesis, Robin Howard is asked to cope with a part that calls for the sort of compelling distinction that Siobhan McKenna and Colleen Dewhurst and very few others can command. On this level Miss Howard simply hasn't got it, but she is a competent actress with a splendid pair of shoulders. Lee Henry is similarly undefinitive but competent as Ultimate Evil. Arthur Malet cannot quite fit his occasional moments of menace into...
...Miss McKenna spoke some time with Maria Livanos, star of Poor Dad, etc. She had not seen the Harvard production, but she said that its title showed it to be "the one bright spot." Titles, she maintains, are indicative of plays, and titles, like theater in general, need a courageous face-lifting...
...enchanted audience at the Hasty Pudding Friday afternoon, Siobhan McKenna held forth with strong statements about the state of modern theatre and made this chronic complaint a vivid one. "I am sorry I am late," she said with a trace of Irish brogue, "I was at a party last night." Then, after a preview of Hasty Pudding songs, Miss McKenna sat down to answer questions...
...think I'm going to laugh," Miss McKenna said. "I'm not going to be able to help myself. All the directors and producers are having heart attacks, and most of my friends will have heart attacks soon. I guess someday I'll have one myself. It's a good way to go, I guess...
...Miss McKenna, who has had a long association with the Cambridge Drama Festival, played the title role of St. Joan in the summer of '56, and the part of Lady Macbeth last season. On Broadway she has starred in The Rope Dancers and The Chalf Garden...