"Juno and The Paycock." By Sean O'Casey. At the Hay-
market Theatre
WHAT is there left to say about this ever-welcome play ? Twelve years and seven or eight visits, even a lamentable film version, have not staled its infinite variety. Its mingling of high tragedy and outrageous fooling seems likely to carry it undiminished through the years. And yet it is difficult to dissociate the protagonists from the personalities of Mr. Arthur Sinclair and Miss Sara Allgood. Their occasional substitutes have not been reassuring, and even now something has gone from the play with the death of Mr. Sydney Morgan, that darlin' man. Mr. Tony Quinn gives quite an effective performance, but some of the richness of Joxer, his platitudes and his tergiversations, has escaped him. None of the minor parts is as well played as in the original production : one misses particularly Messrs. Harry Hutchinson and J. A. O'Rourke. But Miss Maire O'Neill is as boisterous and incarnadined as before, and Miss Allgood is, as always, per- fection. The beauty of her face in the last moments of the first act is a lasting pleasure, and to watch Mr. Sinclair imbibing theosophy and commenting on the behaviour of Consols is an evening's entertainment in itself. There are only four weeks in which to see this revival of one of the great play's of our time.
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