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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...
With sennets and flourishes, Cinemactress Jayne Mansfield brushed aside objections that she is too, too solidly fleshed for tragedy, announced that she was memorizing Hamlet's soliloquies, would follow the examples of Actresses Siobhan McKenna and Sarah Bernhardt by playing the Prince of Denmark, possibly on television. Proposed costume for Actress Mansfield: black tights, bare bodkin...
...director, Michael Linenthal, coordinates action and characters adequately, but the actors themselves hardly ever achieve competence. Cathleen would be a fine role for Siobhan McKenna, as Sylvia Weld no doubt realizes, but Miss Weld's half-hearted imitation of Miss McKenna often becomes mannered, and shrinks the great beauty of Cathleen's character...