330. Albertoni, Remembering Eugene O’Neill, 12.
331. Sheaffer, Son and Artist, 565.
332. Cerf, At Random, 87–88.
333. Quoted in Agee, “The Ordeal of Eugene O’Neill,” 185.
334. Eddie Dowling, interview by Sheaffer.
335. Ibid.; Quoted in Marlon Brando, Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me (New York: Random House, 1994), 105–6.
336. Quoted in Paul Ryan, “Eugene O’Neill: A Hundred Years On,” Drama: The Quarterly Theatre Review 4 (1988), 27.
337. Quoted in Mary Braggiotti, “Little Girl with a Big Ideal,” New York Post, December 20, 1946, daily magazine and comic section, 1.
338. Eddie Dowling, interview by Sheaffer.
339. Karl Schriftgiesser, “The Iceman Cometh,” New York Times, October 6, 1946, 3.
340. Bowen, “ Black Irishman,” 83–84.
341. Ibid., 65.
342. Ibid., 84.
343. Ibid., 82.
344. Robert Sylvester, “O’Neill Won’t Attend Debut,” New York Daily News, October 10, 1946, 58.
345. Ward Morehouse, “The New Play: The Iceman Cometh Is Powerful Theater, Superbly Played at the Martin Beck,” New York Sun, October 10, 1946, 18; John Mason Brown, “Seeing Things: All O’Neilling,” Saturday Review of Literature, October 19, 1946, 26.
346. Quoted in Berlin, “Endings,” 103.
347. O’Neill, “Suggestions, Instructions, Advice.”
348. Robert Sylvester, “O’Neill Has a New Best Seller as Well as Another Hit Play,” New York Sunday News, October [day unknown] 1946.
349. Mary McCarthy, “Eugene O’Neill: Dry Ice,” Partisan Review, November–December 1946, 577; Joseph Wood Krutch, “Drama,” Nation, October 26, 1946, 481.
350. Carlotta Monterey, interview by Louis Sheaffer, July 29, 1962, Sheaffer-O’Neill Collection.
351. O’Neill, Selected Letters, 589.
352. Quoted in Bogard, Contour in Time, 446.
353. Mary Welch, “Softer Tones for Mr. O’Neill’s Portrait,” Theatre Arts, May 1957, 67–68.
354. Elliot Norton, “O’Neill’s New Drama,” Boston Post, February 21, 1947, 3.
355. Bud Kissel, “Show Shop: Too Much Conversation in A Moon for the Misbegotten,” Columbus Citizen, February 21, 1947, 5.
356. Quoted in ibid.
357. “O’Neill Drama Is Vile Sample of Playwriting,” Columbus Register, February 28, 1947, 2.
358. Quoted in Barlow, Final Acts, 119.
359. Quoted in Bogard, Contour in Time, 452, 452n.
360. Welch, “Softer Tones for Mr. O’Neill’s Portrait,” 67–68.
361. Quoted in Barlow, Final Acts, 119.
362. Commins, “Love and Admiration and Respect,” 222.
363. Ibid.
364. Monterey Diary, January 2, 1948.
365. O’Neill, Selected Letters, 579.
366. Sheaffer, Son and Artist, 606. See also Russel Crouse, “Extracts from the Diaries of Russel Crouse: Eugene O’Neill,” TS, Eugene O’Neill Collection, Beinecke Library. Sheaffer says he fractured his shoulder, though Crouse, Monterey, and other sources always referred to his arm.
367. Quoted in Sheaffer, Son and Artist, 606.
368. Ibid., 608.
369. Ibid., 609. Commins evidently censored this for his memoir.
370. Commins, “Love and Admiration and Respect,” 225–26.
371. O’Neill, “The Theatre We Worked For,” 265; Commins, “Love and Admiration and Respect,” 227, 228.
372. O’Neill, “Last Will and Testament of Eugene O’Neill,” October 31, 1947, and June 28, 1948, Eugene O’Neill Papers, Beinecke Library. The gravestone inscription was also included in drafts of his will from February 26, 1947, and July 28, 1947. O’Neill found inspiration for it in Edward Clerihew Bentley, ed., Biography for Beginners (London: T. Werner Laurie, 1905), 15. The full quotation reads, “What I like about Clive / Is that he is no longer alive. / There is a great deal to be said / For being dead.”
373. O’Neill, “As Ever, Gene”, 234, 236.
374. Quoted in Bowen, Curse of the Misbegotten, 335.
375. O’Neill, Selected Letters, 581.
376. Shane’s children with Givens are named Kathleen, Maura, Theodore, and Sheila.
377. Sheaffer, Son and Artist, 627.
378. O’Neill, Selected Letters, 585; Commins, “Love and Admiration and Respect,” 230; Michael Burlingame, “O’Neill Recalled Warmly,” (New London) Day, July 21, 1988, E1.
379. Commins, “Love and Admiration and Respect,” 231.
380. Ibid.
381. Bowen, Curse of the Misbegotten, 349. Kathleen Jenkins, interview by Louis Sheaffer, November 30, [no year but in the 1950 file], Sheaffer-O’Neill Collection.
382. Albertoni, Remembering Eugene O’Neill, 13.
383. Sheaffer, Son and Artist, 643.
384. Quoted in Albertoni, Remembering Eugene O’Neill, 13; O’Neill recounted Monterey’s cry of “I hear a little man calling in the wind” to his nurse Sally Coughlin after he was later admitted to Doctors Hospital in New York (Coughlin, interview by Louis Sheaffer, n.d., Sheaffer-O’Neill Collection).
385. Quoted in Sheaffer, Son and Artist, 639, 642.
386. Eugene O’Neill, “Last Will and Testament of Eugene O’Neill,” March 5, 1951, O’Neill Papers, Beinecke Library. O’Neill later claimed to have had “hardly any memory of signing it” (Eugene O’Neill to Albert B. Carey, June [?] 1951 [photocopy], private collection of Jackson R. Bryer).
387. Burlingame, “O’Neill Recalled Warmly,” E3.
388. Quoted in Sheaffer, Son and Artist, 644.
389. Ibid., 646.
390. Thalia Brewer (historian, Eugene O’Neill Foundation, Tao House), notes from interview by Maxine Edie Benedict, October 18, 1977, Sheaffer-O’Neill Collection.
391. Sheaffer, Son and Artist, 644, 646.
392. Ibid., 643, 644.
393. Albertoni, Remembering Eugene O’Neill, 14.
394. Carlotta Monterey O’Neill to Kenneth Macgowan, April 4, 1951, Sheaffer-O’Neill Collection.
395. Sally Coughlin, interview by Louis Sheaffer, n.d., Sheaffer-O’Neill Collection.
396. Quoted in Sheaffer, Son and Artist, 654.
397. Commins, “Love and Admiration and Respect,” 235.
398. Quoted in Sheaffer, Son and Artist, 659.
399. Monterey Diary, May 23, 1951.
400. Eugene O’Neill, “Last Will and Testament of Eugene O’Neill,” June 28, 1948, O’Neill Papers, Beinecke Library; Eugene O’Neill to Albert B. Carey, May 1951 [photocopy], private collection of Jackson R. Bryer. There is a note added at the bottom from Monterey: “This written (dictated) by Gene after his return to Boston and me in May 1951.”
401. Book of inscriptions by Eugene O’Neill to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill (in Carlotta’s handwriting), Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library.
402. Eugene O’Neill to Bennett Cerf, June 13, 1951, Sheaffer-O’Neill Collection.
403. Seymour Peck, “Talk with Mrs. O’Neill: Playwright’s Widow Traces Long Path Journey Travelled to the Stage,” November 4, 1956, New York Times, 3, 1.
404. Quoted in Sheaffer, Son and Artist, 668.
405. Ibid., 670; quoted in ibid., 78.
Postscript
1. Quoted in Bruce H. Price and E. P. Richardson, “The Neurologic Illness of Eugene O’Neill: A Clinicopathologic Report,” New England Journal of Medicine 342, no. 15 (2000): 1126.
2. “Transcribed Massachusetts Death Record,” Eugene O’Neill, Mass Document Retrieval, 2013; Price and Richardson, “The Neurologic Illness,” 1129.
3. Bruce H. Price, “The Eugene O’Neill Autopsy Project,” in “Celtic Twilight: 21st-Century Irish-Americans on Eugene O’Neill,” Drunken Boat #12, http://www.drunkenboat.com/db12/04one/price/price.php. Price and Richardson describe it as “cerebellar cortical atrophy” (“The Neurologic Illness”.)
4. Book of inscriptions by Eugene O’Neill to Carlotta Monterey
O’Neill (in Carlotta’s handwriting), April 11, 1954, Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library. (Monterey recorded these details regarding the burial.)
5. That she bowed her head, see Louis Sheaffer, O’Neill: Son and Artist (Boston: Little, Brown, 1973), 67; that she said the Lord’s Prayer, see Michael Burlingame, “O’Neill Recalled Warmly,” (New London) Day, July 21, 1988, E3. This last reported that she dropped to her knees, but Sheaffer’s is an eyewitness account.
6. Book of inscriptions, October 20, 1953.
7. Quoted in Brenda Murphy, O’Neill: Long Day’s Journey Into Night (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 4.
8. Carlotta Monterey Diary, February 25, 1954, O’Neill Papers, Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven. My thanks to William Davies King for calling my attention to this entry.
9. Dorothy Commins, ed., “Love and Admiration and Respect”: The O’Neill-Commins Correspondence (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1986), 239.
10. Bennett Cerf, At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf (New York: Random House, 1977), 89.
11. “The Theatre: O’Neill’s Last Play,” Time, February 20, 1956, 89.
12. Eugene O’Neill, “Agreement: Carlotta Monterey O’Neill and Yale University, Long day’s Journey Into Night,” May 27, 1955, Eugene O’Neill Papers, Beinecke Library.
13. Eugene O’Neill to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill, trust agreement, March 3, 1952, Eugene O’Neill Papers, Beinecke Library. (I wrote the Suffolk County Probate Court to request the final version of O’Neill’s will, and it responded, “Unfortunately, and perhaps due to his VIP status at the time of his death, his probate file at Suffolk County Probate Court is impounded and is not open to the public” [e-mail to the author, October 10, 2013].)
14. Quoted in Doris Alexander, Eugene O’Neill’s Last Plays: Separating Art from Autobiography (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005), 152.
15. Commins, “Love and Admiration and Respect,” 199.
16. Eugene O’Neill, Selected Letters of Eugene O’Neill, ed. Travis Bogard and Jackson R. Bryer (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988), 569.
17. “O’Neill’s ‘Self-Portrait’ Play Hailed at Swedish Premiere,” Boston Daily Globe, February 11, 1956. He also told this to Croswell Bowen (Croswell Bowen, “The Black Irishman” [1946], in O’Neill and His Plays: Four Decades of Criticism, ed. Oscar Cargill, N. Bryllion Fagin, and William J. Fisher [New York: New York University Press, 1961], 70).
18. Quoted in Arthur Gelb and Barbara Gelb, O’Neill: Life with Monte Cristo (New York: Applause, 2000), 337.
19. Agnes Boulton, Part of a Long Story: “Eugene O’Neill as a Young Man in Love,” ed. William Davies King (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2011), 172.
20. Jim Cook, “A Long Tragic Journey,” New York Post, December 2, 1956.
21. Monterey Diary, May 29, 30, 1954; Brenda Murphy, “What New London Said about the O’Neills,” Ninth International Conference on Eugene O’Neill, June 21, 2014, New London, Conn.; Monterey Diary, May 29, 30, 1954.
22. Eugene O’Neill, “Autograph Manuscript, 1 page,” Hammerman Collection, http://eoneill.com/manuscripts/27200.htm.
23. Louis Sheaffer, Son and Playwright (Boston: Little, Brown, 1968), 142.
24. O’Neill, Selected Letters, 381.
25. Quoted in Sheaffer, Son and Artist, 429.
26. Ibid., 540. For more on the family’s reaction to the play, see Doris Alexander, Eugene O’Neill’s Last Plays, 122.
27. O’Neill, Selected Letters, 338.
28. Ibid., 435.
29. Eugene O’Neill, “The Theatre We Worked For”: The Letters of Eugene O’Neill to Kenneth Macgowan, ed. Travis Bogard and Jackson R. Bryer (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982), 253.
30. “The Theater: O’Neill’s Last Play.”
31. Monterey Diary, May 29, 30, April 21, 1954.
32. Kathryne Albertoni, Remembering Eugene O’Neill: A Memoir by Kathryne Albertoni, RN (privately printed, 2006), 14, in the author’s possession; Kathryne Albertoni, interview by the author, October 6, 2010.
33. Quoted in Sheaffer, Son and Artist, 644.
34. Quoted in William Davies King, Another Part of a Long Story: Literary Traces of Eugene O’Neill and Agnes Boulton (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010), 179.
35. Carl Van Vechten to Alfred A. Knopf, October 30, 1956, in Letters of Carl Van Vechten, ed. Bruce Kellner (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987), 264.
36. King, Another Part of a Long Story, 231. Boulton’s second volume was to deal with the three-year period when O’Neill’s parents and brother died, the third, with the working title “Full Fathom Five,” about the couple’s later years to the ruin of their marriage in 1928.
37. “The Theater: O’Neill’s Last Play.”
38. George Williamson, “Plaudits for O’Neill: Swedish Press Hails Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” New York Times, February 15, 1956.
39. John Chapman, “Long Day’s Journey Into Night a Drama of Sheer Magnificence,” New York Daily News, November 8, 1956, 86; Brooks Atkinson, “Theatre: Tragic Journey,” New York Times, November 8, 1956, 47.
40. Walter Kerr, “Theater: Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” New York Herald Tribune, November 8, 1956, sec. 1, 20.
41. Tony Kushner, “The Genius of O’Neill,” Eugene O’Neill Review 26 (2004): 249, 253.
42. Kenneth Pearson, “Plays and Players: The Last Touch of O’Neill,” Sunday Times (London), October 12, 1958, 21.
Index
Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
Abbey Theatre (Dublin, Ireland). See Irish Players
Abortion (1914), (i), (ii), (iii)
Actors’ Repertory Company, (i)
Actors’ Theater, (i)
Agee, James, (i)
Ah, Wilderness! (1932), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)n161
Aitken, Harry E., (i)
Akins, Zoë, (i)
Albee, Edward, (i)
Albertoni, Kathryne, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
alcohol: isolation/loneliness feelings and, (i), (ii); Jimmy the Priest’s, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); Jim O’Neill and, (i), (ii), (iii); Louise Bryant and, (i), (ii), (iii); notable binges, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv)n143, (xv)n155; O’Neill autopsy and, (i); O’Neill hangovers, (i); Prohibition, (i), (ii), (iii); Provincetown drinking, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); psychiatric treatment for, (i), (ii); Raines Law, (i); rhythm of dialogue and, (i); sobriety attempts, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)
Allen, Kelcey, (i), (ii)n127
All God’s Chillun Got Wings (1923), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)n127
American Laboratory Theatre, (i)
Ancient Mariner, The (1924, arr. O’Neill), (i), (ii)
Anderson, John, (i)
Anderson, Maxwell, (i), (ii)
Anderson, Sherwood, (i), (ii)
And Give Me Death (1938, unfinished), (i)
“Anna Christie” (1920), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)
Archer, William, (i)
Ash Can School, (i)
Ashe, Beatrice, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
Ashleigh, Charles, (i)
atheism, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv). See also Catholicism
Atkinson, J. Brooks, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Babbitt (Lewis), (i)
Baird, James, (i)
Baird, Peggy, (i)
Baker, George Pierce, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)n198
Barnes, Albert Coombs, (i)
Barnes, Clive, (i)
Barnes, Djuna, (i), (ii), (iii)
Barton, Ralph, (i), (ii)
Batson, Alfred, (i)
Beck, Martin, (i)
Before Breakfast (1916), (i), (ii)
Belasco, David, (i), (ii), (iii)
Belgrade Lakes (Maine), (i), (ii), (iii)
Bellows
, George, (i)
Belshazzar (1914, with Colin Ford), (i)
Benchley, Robert C., (i), (ii)
Bennett, Richard, (i)
Benny, Jack, (i)
Bergman, Ingrid, (i)
Berkman, Alexander, (i)
Berlin, Irving, (i)
Bermuda, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)
Bernard, Claude, (i)
Beyond the Horizon (1918), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi)
Bisch, Louis E., (i)
Blair, Mary, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
Blinn, Holbrook, (i)
Bodenheim, Maxwell, (i), (ii)
bohemianism, (i), (ii), (iii)
Booth, Edwin, (i)
Boulton, Agnes (second wife): abortion, (i); abuse and marital strife, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); biography of O’Neill, (i); Boulton family, (i), (ii); Carlotta Monterey and, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)n285; children, (i), (ii), (iii); death, (i); divorce, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii); on The Dreamy Kid, (i); Ella O’Neill death and, (i), (ii); Exorcism script and, (i), (ii), (iii); Experimental Theatre and, (i), (ii); Great Depression effect on, (i); Lou Holladay death and, (i); Louise Bryant and, (i), (ii); marriage, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); O’Neill drinking and, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)n155; on O’Neill’s suicide attempt, (i); photograph, (i), (ii); Provincetown Players and, (i); Welded references to, (i); as writer, (i), (ii), (iii)
Bound East for Cardiff (1914), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)n11
Bowen, Croswell, (i)
Boyce, Neith, (i), (ii), (iii)
Boyd, Fred, (i)
Boyesen, Bayard, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)n3
Boyle, T. Coraghessan, (i)
Brady, Alice, (i)
Brando, Marlon, (i)
Bread and Butter (1914), (i), (ii), (iii)n196
Brennen, Agnes (cousin), (i)
Brenon, Juliet, (i)
“Bridegroom Weeps! The” (poem, ca. 1910; revised 1917), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)n78
Broadway theater, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Brook Farm (Connecticut), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Broun, Heywood, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
Brown, John Mason, (i), (ii), (iii)
Brown, J. W., (i)
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