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Please accept my fervid thanks for the service you render this reader when you give the pronunciation of names in the news such as Siobhan McKenna [TIME, Feb. 9]. LULINE* FORTUNE WILLIS Texarkana...
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...last week, she gave new life to the dated charm of the J. M. Barrie play. As Maggie Wylie, the homely but wise and witty Scottish lass who is the real reason behind her bartered bridegroom's success, Ireland's Siobhan (pronounced Shi-vawn) McKenna, 35, was a trim, burr-voiced delight...
Cantankerous Christian. Siobhan McKenna has been playing parts her way ever since she grew up in Galway, daughter of a mathematics professor, and began her play acting with her pals in a neighbor's barn. For a while the theater came close to losing her to her father's profession, but her love of Gaelic and the stage kept her coming back to Irish drama. Soon she was involved with Saint Joan, the role that has almost become her alter ego. For a starter she translated the Shaw play into Gaelic, but her greatest triumph came later...
...Letter). Between assignments she lives with husband Denis O'Dea, a dental student turned actor, and their ten-year-old son in a four-story Georgian house in Dublin. The blunt matter-of-factness she displayed as Maggie Wylie last week belongs in large measure to Siobhan McKenna. Says she: "I'm a party girl, but if I have a hangover, I take nothing for it; I want to know how hung over I am." Her forthright opinions are famed among her friends. Some samples: ¶ On Catholicism: "I believe every word." ¶On money...