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...flood of good, bad and mediocre disks, there are some surprising disappointments. Siobhan McKenna's reading of Molly Bloom's sensuous soliloquy from James Joyce's Ulysses lacks both the virago drive and the Lilith languors of that Protean whore; Dame Peggy Ashcroft sounds too much the maidenly elocutionist for the passionate verses in her assorted Poetry Readings (London). London's Sherlock Holmes disk goes to the other extreme as three mighty hams-Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson. Orson Welles-rant and thunder through Dr. Watson Meets Sherlock Holmes and The Final Problem...
Juno and the Paycock (Angel, 2 LPs). With a foreword by Playwright Sean O'Casey, one of the century's great tragicomedies boils up again from the Dublin slums. Siobhan McKenna, as Juno, has in her voice all the ache and sorrow of Cathleen Ni Houlihan; Seamus Kavanagh makes his Captain a lovable buffoon for most of three acts and - at the right moment - turns him into a villain; Cyril Cusack whines and wheedles his way magnificently into the role of Joxer Daly...
...conviction that what has happened is retribution for sin. Seen as a pathological figure, Margaret is valid and often effective. Moreover, the play highlights how abnormal she is by setting her against a blowzy, easygoing neighbor woman and a sane and knowledgeable neighborhood doctor. Yet, even in Siobhan McKenna's severe, unbending portrayal, Margaret seems something other than a dispassionate psychological study. Playwright Wishengrad has identified her with something in life itself, perhaps with something that gnaws at his own insides. He pushes on toward glib and rather grandiose tragedy, toward loud-pedaled moments that never quite ring true...
Profits in Bottles. Some projects were agreed on in short order. One notable example: a syndicate to finance a $9,000,000 pulp-and-paper mill in Pernambuco, Brazil, set up by Norbert A. McKenna, partner in Wall Street's Reynolds & Co., and Roberto de Oliveira Campos, representing Brazil's National Economic Development Bank. And for some doubters, some of the best evidence of the opportunities for foreign investments comes from U.S. and Canadian businessmen who were stationed or have traveled abroad. Among the most persuasive...
...Tools. As the group headed off from Moscow's Yaroslavsky Station amid a blare of brass bands, the Rev. Mr. McKenna read a statement signed by 32 members of the group. "We believe in the right of citizens to travel." he said. "We reject the notion that we are a tool of Communist propaganda." Not 24 hours later one of the group, Brooklyn's Larry Moyer, was pumping out glowing dispatches for the United Press about Communism's "oceans of golden wheat . . . big factories and golden domes of Byzantine churches . . . new industrial giants seldom visited by foreigners...