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2 unusual facts about Brooks Atkinson


Ellen Demming

Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times deemed her performance full of "...pride, modesty, and great delicacy of feeling."

Winifred Lenihan

Even many years later, theater writers were still praising her performance whenever they mentioned "Saint Joan." Brooks Atkinson wrote in The Times that Miss Lenihan and Katharine Cornell, who played the role later, "left their marks on the part, for both of them had something genuine to give it."



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