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Opening with Katie Roche by Teresa Deevy, a U. S. premiere, the Manhattan repertory includes standbys like O'Casey's Plough and the Stars, Juno and the Paycock, Synge's Playboy of the Western World, new items like Cormac O'Daly's The Silver Jubilee, George Shiels's The Passing...
...Crimson in the Tri-Color. The latter was set down on paper a friend stole for the poverty-stricken playwright from a printing plant. These, too, failed to make the Abbey. But his next, The Shadow of a Gunman, did. World fame came with Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars. When the Abbey turned down The Silver Tassic, an anti-War piece, O'Casey split with the organization, moved to England. Within the Gates is the first O'Casey play without an Irish setting...
Juno and the Paycock, by Sean O'Casey. A rich and rowdy tragic poem about an ironically conceived old wastrel who watches his family sink into want and despair with the ineffectual moan: "The world is in a state of chassis...
...There have been foolish threats and disturbances when it was announced that we were going to give O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock," and Synge's "Playboy of the Western World." Just because they depict life realistically and do not hesitate to show the sordid, several self-constituted censors have proposed that we should omit the performances from our repertoire. On the grounds of morality they object to "Juno" because it pictures living conditions among the poor, and in it no Irish girl has an illegitimate child, and of course, no Irish girl would have an illegitimate child. Objections...
...that he had coined the name to rhyme with whiskey. Author and actor compromised on another spirit, the character became Seamus O'Tandy. Last time Actor Sinclair appeared in the U. S. (1927) he took part in two well-received plays by Sean O'Casey: Juno & The Paycock, The Plough & The Stars. Bad Girl is another novel which is plausible in its dramatized version. Season before last the book ranked as a best seller, later vying in popularity with The Specialist, the poesy of Edgar Guest and the Holy Bible. Because the story of the book was thin...