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...shows this season, seems certain to crack last year's record of 68. Still to come: George Bernard Shaw's Good King Charles's Golden Days, Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock, and a musical version of Tom Sawyer...
Astringent and idiosyncratic, The Green Crow brings out the crackerbarrel philosopher strain in O'Casey. But the flashes of lyric power are there still, since fortunately, like the leopard, the proud "paycock" cannot change its spots...
...Casey is a hero to his mirror. Yet he has reason above vanity for some of his pride; he climbed out of the Dublin slums to the fameupholstered penthouse of playwriting, leaving at least two masterpieces to mark the trail, i.e., The Plough and the Stars, Juno and the Paycock. Along the way he has also taken on a habit of piling chips on his shoulders and wearing them like epaulettes. The Green Crow is largely a dress parade of pet peeves, mostly in the form of journalistic pieces on the theater, actors, critics, fellow playwrights and, Lord have mercy...
Still the "Paycock." Yet there is precious little laughter in the four short stories with which O'Casey ends his book. Each of the tales pictures a helpless bit of humanity fluttering in the cage of need. Best of the lot is I Wanna Woman, in which a young Londoner, whose girl friend fails to keep a date, spends the night with a Piccadilly prostitute and wakes to a racking hangover of disgust and remorse...
...Gates in 1934 has Sean O'Casey had a "new" play produced on Broadway. Of those waiting without the gates, Red Roses scarcely deserves to be admitted first. It has much that is indi vidual, and at its best evokes the vernacular glories of Juno and the Paycock. But it is chiefly a reminder of how distinguished O'Casey can be; it has no sustained distinction...