Dungarvan Observer 4 February 1961
‘Jack Aranson and Mary Rose McMaster have returned to
Ireland after five years in America. During
that time, they appeared in several plays in New York, on T.V. and toured the
States extensively mainly in a Shakespeare programme. Orson Welles with whom
Jack Aranson appeared in ‘King Lear’ on Broadway, has personally given him the
sole rights of his adaption of Moby Dick.We learn this Company will play in Dungarvan
on the 12th and 14th of February and have stood down on Monday
night 13th so that the Dungarvan Harriers patrons could have the
amenities of the Friary Hall. What a
sporting and noble gesture’.
Mary Rose McMaster (1926-2018) was the daughter of
actor Anew McMaster. She married
American actor Jack Aranson and they founded a production company. Her biography of her father was published in
2018 – A Life Remembered: A Memoir of Anew McMaster. Anew McMaster appeared in many dramatic productions
in Dungarvan. Mary Rose died in her 90s
in America.
