by Arthur Gelb
she is in good health and might live to be one hundred.A/BG interviews with Crockett & DG.
her heart has worn out. A/BG interview with RC.
no one to plant laurel for Carlotta. Parts of this epilogue were published in a 1972 “enlarged” edition of O’Neill.
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INDEX
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abortion, Strange Interlude (O’Neill), 7
Abraham Lincoln (Drinkwater), 177
Abreu, Francis, 398, 402
Adams, Evangeline, 320, 333
Adams, Franklin Pierce, 394
adultery, Days Without End (O’Neill), 4, 325
Aeschylus, 615, 673
Aeschylus Oresteia trilogy, 62, 79–80, 347, 361
See also Mourning Becomes Electra (O’Neill)
Agamemnon, 362, 363
Ah, Wilderness! (O’Neill), 174, 191, 412–13, 418, 419–25, 426, 442, 619, 628
Albee, Edward, xiv
Albertoni, Kaye, 587, 590, 594–95, 600, 603, 703, 726
See also Radovan, Kaye
“Alcohol and the Nervous System” (Purvis-Stewart), 265–66
Alexander, Steve, 619, 649
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 725
All God’s Chillun Got Wings (O’Neill), 187, 238–47, 248, 259, 370–71, 496, 532–33
America, 429
American greed symbol, Marco Millions (O’Neill), 11
American Mercury, The, 240, 242, 243
American soul-destroying lust for money, 438–39, 440, 459, 626
See also Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed, A (O’Neill)
“American Tragedy, An,” Beyond the Horizon (O’Neill), 153
anarchist movement 1900s, 103, 379, 420, 518, 524, 526, 527, 531, 532
See also Iceman Cometh, The (O’Neill)
Anarchist Woman, An (Hapgood), 527
Anderson, Sherwood and Eleanor, 444–45
Anna Christie (O’Neill), 8, 11, 48, 88, 174, 180, 182, 184, 186, 188, 189, 190–91, 191–92, 195, 196, 215, 222, 235, 316, 353, 646–47, 723, 726
See also Chris Christophersen (O’Neill)
Annie Get Your Gun (musical), 640
Another Part of the Forest (Hellman), 646
Antic Hay (Huxley), 263
Arbeiter-Zeitung, 532
Armstrong, Louis, 671
Arnold, Edward, 146
Aronberg, Winfield, 612, 615, 628, 660, 664, 667, 668, 678, 694, 698, 701, 707, 710, 711, 712, 716, 719, 721, 723, 724
Ashe, Beatrice (Eugene’s girlfriend), 35–36, 594, 601
asides. See spoken asides
Aspell, John, 148–49, 150–51, 156, 157, 158
Associated Press, 374, 468
Atkinson, Brooks, xiv–xv, xxii, xxiii, 75, 286, 388–90, 392–93, 397, 424–25, 429, 517, 629, 673–74, 675, 715, 736, 738–39, 740
Atlantic Monthly, The, 672
atomic bombing of Japan, 604
autobiographical plays, xv, 6, 73, 139, 140, 180, 194, 253, 313, 324, 325, 425, 439, 555, 557–60
See also Ah, Wilderness! (O’Neill); First Man, The (O’Neill); Hairy Ape, The (O’Neill); Iceman Cometh, The (O’Neill); Long Day’s Journey Into Night (O’Neill); Sea-Mother’s Son, The (O’Neill)
Back to Methuselah (Shaw), 316, 317
Baker, George Pierce, 292
Baker, Lee, 388
Ballantine, Stella and Teddy, 123–24, 182
Banton, Joab H., 271, 272
Barbour, Mrs., 263
Barnes, Djuna, 650
Barnes, Howard, 630
Barry, Philip, 292
Barrymore brothers, 125, 196, 260, 462
Barton, James, 617, 628–29
Barton, Ralph (Carlotta’s third husband), 5, 15, 16–17, 23–24, 27, 38, 40, 294, 297–98, 348–49, 358, 359, 380–82, 383, 579, 639, 712
Basso, Hamilton, 458, 649
Batson, Alfred, 64–65, 66–67, 653
Baudelaire, Charles Pierre, 4, 479, 512
Bayes, Nora, 595
Beacon Farm, 385, 386, 388, 390
Behrman, S. N., xv, 292, 453, 478–79
Belasco, David, 266, 267, 271–72, 277, 304
Bellows, George, 251
Ben-Ami, Jacob, 234
Benchley, Robert, 75, 393
Bennett, Richard, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 153–54, 160
Bentley, Eric, 672–73
Bergman, Ingrid, 646–47, 750
Berlin, Irving, 596, 638
Bermuda, 260, 261, 262, 264, 265, 271, 274, 277, 283, 288, 289, 290, 293
See also Spithead
Bernhardt, Sarah, 22
Berry, Joan, 579
Beyond the Horizon (O’Neill), 8, 37, 48, 57, 110–12, 117, 118, 122, 125, 136, 140, 146–49, 150, 151–54, 155–56, 157, 159, 160, 161, 183, 189, 191, 251, 308, 422
Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Freud), 291
Bird, Clare, 694–95, 696, 701, 702
Bisch, Louis, 142, 265, 268, 274, 275, 278, 279–80, 285
black characters, 177, 178–79, 180, 532–33
See also All God’s Chillun Got Wings (O’Neill); Emperor Jones, The (O’Neill)
Blair, Mary, 212, 241–42, 243, 244, 245, 247, 279
“Blemie” (Silverdeen Emblem, Dalmatian), 357, 366–67, 375, 378, 380, 390, 391, 405, 406, 418, 435, 477, 479, 486, 490, 494, 510, 548, 551–54, 616, 742
“Blind Alley Guy” (O’Neill), 554, 570
Blizzard on Marblehead Neck, A (Kushner), 688
blotting tablet, 355
Boll, George, 398, 402, 403, 409, 410, 448, 452, 453, 466, 474, 653
Bond, Ward, 545
Boni & Liveright, 256
Booth, Edwin, xviii
Boston Herald, 429, 701
Boston Post, 737
Boston Transcript, 429
Boulton, Agnes, 85–95
appearance of, 86, 99, 118
Beyond the Horizon (O’Neill), 110
dairy farm background of, 86, 87, 99, 126
Edward William “Teddy” (father), 86, 310, 318, 320–21, 335
first meeting with Eugene, 86, 87–91
first night spent with Eugene, 96–98
housekeeping, 109, 110, 248, 300, 315, 334
Marjorie “Budgie” (sister), 276–77, 289, 291, 302
Moon of the Caribbees, The (O’Neill), 98
“poet-genius,” Eugene as, 109, 112
See also Burton, Barbara; O’Neill, Agnes
Bound East for Cardiff (O’Neill), 63, 91, 517
Brady, Alice, 388, 391–92
Brady, William A., 271, 272
Breakfast in Bed (Feydeau), 152
Brennans, 174, 200, 209–10, 581–82
Breuer, Bessie, 315
Brook Farm, 44, 221–22, 223, 224, 248, 250, 251, 252–53, 256, 257, 259, 277, 278, 280, 289, 290, 304, 307, 320, 328, 329, 335, 336, 467, 569
Brothers Ashkenazi, The (Singer), 568
Broun, Heywood, 153, 178, 184, 190, 211, 247, 258
Brown, Chamberlain, 21
Brown, John Mason, 190, 393, 630, 650
Bryant, Louise, xvii, 92–93, 93–94, 94–95, 96, 99, 100, 110, 112, 113–18, 120, 311, 337, 455–56, 745
See also Beyond the Horizon (O’Neill)
Bullitt, William C., 455, 456
Burns, Ric, xviii
Burns, William J., 524
Burton, Barbara (Agnes’s daughter from first marriage), 43–44, 55, 56, 58, 100, 127, 130, 138, 181, 200, 215, 216–17, 223, 260, 276, 289, 293, 300, 301, 302, 339–40, 341, 350
See also Boulton, Agnes
Byron, Lord, 460–61
Byth, James, 513, 532, 535
By Way of Obit (O’Neill), 550–51
Caldwell, Janie, 588, 594–95, 596–98, 600, 601–2, 603, 604, 609, 610, 619, 634
Caldwell, Myrtle, 588, 594, 595, 596, 597, 600, 601, 603
Call, 104
Calms of Capricorn, The (O’Neill), 440–41, 444, 495, 501
Campbell, Mrs. Patrick, 244
Cane, Melville, 652, 656, 660–61, 663
Capalbo, Carmen, 742–44
Caplan, David, 524
Capra, Frank, 71, 72
Carberg, Warren, 737
Carlin, Terry, 103, 105, 518, 519, 524, 526, 527–30
Carlson, Arthur, 588
Caruso, Enrico, 320
Casa Genotta, 398, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406–7, 407–9, 410, 411, 415, 426, 435, 440, 442, 443, 445, 448, 451, 454, 466, 467, 474–75, 477, 483, 485, 599, 714
Casey, Walter, 653–54, 656, 661–62
Castiglia, Peter, 614
Catcher in the Rye, The (Salinger), 582
Cather, Willa, 29
Catholicism, 4, 31, 105, 162, 208, 228, 279, 326–28, 398–99, 400, 401, 412, 416, 417–18, 419, 427–28, 429, 430, 529, 686, 731–32
See also spirituality
censorship, 13, 644–45
Cerf, Bennett, 418, 611, 638–39, 640, 715, 721, 732, 739, 740
Chaliapin, Feodor, 289, 291
Chalmers, Thomas, 388
“Chambered Nautilus, The” (Holmes), 489
Chaplin, Charlie (Oona’s husband), xvi, xx, 16, 578, 579–82, 712, 715–16
Chaplin, Oona (Eugene and Agnes’s daughter), xvi, xx, 581–82, 715–16, 746
See also O’Neill, Oona
Chapman, Cynthia Jane (Carlotta and Melvin’s daughter), 22–23, 48, 350, 357, 386, 403, 404, 449, 472–73, 491–92, 508, 511, 586, 588, 649, 746–47
Chapman, John, 382
Chapman, Melvin, Jr. (Carlotta’s second husband), 22, 350
Charles Racine (ship), 34, 60, 101, 515
Chase, Ilka, 4–5, 16, 25, 397, 402, 408, 427
Chase, Stanley, 742, 743, 744
Chekhov, Anton, 371, 395
Cherrick, Gilbert R., 745, 752, 753, 754–55, 756–57
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (Byron), 461
childless vow, Eugene and Agnes, 26, 30, 109, 132, 181
See also neglected children
Chris Christophersen (O’Neill), 11, 130, 136, 140, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 156, 157, 158, 159, 174, 192
See also Anna Christie (O’Neill)
City Room (Gelb, A.), xvii
Civil War, 362, 622
Clark, Barrett H., xv, 474, 479
Clark, Mary, 232
Clarke, Bill “Volo the Volitant,” 10, 39, 225
Clarke, Fifine D’Orsay “Gaga,” 147, 160, 162, 169, 183, 216, 273, 275, 277, 289, 291, 302, 303, 308, 332, 341
Clurman, Harold, 726
Clytemnestra, 362, 363, 375
Cohan, George, 421–22, 423, 424, 425
Cohen, Alexander H., 740
Colbert, Claudette, 75–76
Collins, Hutch, 97, 98, 101, 420
Collins, Mabel, 57
Colombo, Ceylon, 64, 70
Colum, Padraic, 274
comedy. See “Nostalgic Comedy”
Commins, Dorothy Berliner, 81, 202, 203, 695, 708, 715, 716
Commins, Saxe, 67, 81, 182–83, 201–2, 203–4, 226, 349, 354, 369, 405, 418, 451, 569, 580, 584, 651–52, 653, 656, 657–58, 659, 664, 667, 678, 695, 708–9, 715, 716, 724
“Conning Tower, The” (F.P.A.), 394
Connor, William P., 201, 202, 203
Conrad, Joseph, 95
Cook, George “Jig” Cram, 127, 176–77, 178, 180, 196, 235, 236–37, 237–38, 243
cops, crooked, Iceman Cometh, The (O’Neill), 534
Cornell, Katharine, 316, 317, 388
Coughlin, Sally, 713–14, 717, 719
Count of Monte Cristo, xviii, 141, 163, 169, 170, 171, 206, 207, 393, 464, 478, 559
Coward, Noël, 75
Cowley, Malcolm, 192, 252, 253
Crane, Hart, 253
Crichton, Kyle, 431
critics vs. Eugene, xx, 190–91, 258–59, 672–74
See also specific critics
Croak, Jack, 175–76
Crockett, Richard, 747, 757, 758, 759
Crouse, Russel, 294, 423, 429, 431, 467, 471, 512, 638, 640, 658–59, 670, 703, 707, 710, 712–13
Cuthbert, Alice, 263–64
Cycle play, 73, 187, 439–40, 441, 442, 443, 444, 445–46, 448, 450, 451, 452, 454, 455, 458–66, 469, 470, 472, 474, 478, 479, 484, 486, 489, 490–91, 494–97, 498, 500, 501, 502, 537, 543, 546, 549–50, 552, 559, 565, 566, 624, 646, 647, 664, 729–30, 744, 748–49, 750
See also More Stately Mansions (O’Neill); Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed, A (O’Neill); Touch of the Poet, A (O’Neill)
“Cynara” (Dowson), 144
Daily Worker, 105
Dance of Death (Strindberg), 28, 217–18
Dart, Frank, 215
Davis, Richard Harding, 93
Day, Cyrus, 540–41
Day, Dorothy, 104–5, 105–7, 227
Days Without End (O’Neill), xiv, 62, 399–401, 402, 417–18, 419, 424, 427–31, 435, 464, 469, 616, 628–29, 636, 731
See also Without Endings of Days (O’Neill)
death obsession, 284, 285, 288–89, 497
See also Great God Brown, The (O’Neill); Iceman Cometh, The (O’Neill); Lazarus Laughed (O’Neill)
Death of a Salesman (Miller), 675, 676, 677
Debs, Eugene V., 536
De Casseres, Benjamin, 31, 48, 59, 60, 76, 379, 381, 431
De Casseres, Bio, 31–32, 76, 381, 431
Decline of the West, The (Spengler), 670
de Gonzales, Marquis Esteban, 59
Delaney, James J. (Agnes’s lover), 341, 575
de León, Juan Ponce, 187
Dempsey, Jack,
409
Demuth, Charles, 105
de Polo, Harold, 123, 253, 260
Depression, 377, 397, 398, 407, 474, 499
Desire Under the Elms (O’Neill), 8, 56, 187, 193, 248–50, 251, 252, 253, 254–56, 257–58, 259, 271–72, 290, 355, 370, 461, 647, 669, 726, 744
devil Eugene knew, 26, 287, 310, 318–19
See also O’Neill, Agnes
De Voto, Bernard, 471, 472
Dewhurst, Colleen, xvii, 675
DeWitt Nursing Home, 757, 758
De Wolfe, Elsie, 294
diagram of family by Eugene, 284–85, 324–25
See also Long Day’s Journey Into Night (O’Neill); Sea-Mother’s Son, The (O’Neill)
Diff’rent (O’Neill), 174, 178, 182, 190, 212
directors. See specific directors
divorce of Eugene and Agnes (Eugene’s second wife), xv, xix–xx
Barbara and, 43–44, 55, 56, 58, 138
Carlotta and, 42–43, 49, 58–59, 60, 61, 81
“clarifying her situation” interview, 46, 47
delaying tactics by Agnes, 53, 54, 76, 341
detective hired to tail Agnes, 56, 341
divorce announcement, Eugene, 337–38
elopement of Eugene and Carlotta, 9, 26, 32, 33–35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 47, 69, 309, 334, 347, 349, 655, 738
financial aspects, 47, 58, 65, 66, 86, 481, 612
first marriage of Agnes, 43–44, 55–56, 58, 100
negotiations, 41–42, 43–44, 45, 47, 58–59, 65, 338–39, 347
pledge about divorce and alimony if fall in love with some else, 44, 337
pregnancy ploy by Agnes, 43, 339
promiscuity accusations of Agnes by Eugene, 42, 330, 331, 332–33
Reno, Nevada, 40, 41, 46, 47, 56, 76, 85, 340, 341, 342, 348
See also marriage of Eugene and Agnes; Monterey, Carlotta; O’Neill, Agnes; O’Neill, Eugene
Dobson, Austin, 730–31
Doctors Hospital, 457, 654–57, 658, 659, 660, 679, 696, 702–3, 707, 708, 709, 712, 713, 714, 717
Dodge, Mabel, 125, 260
Dolan, John “Dirty Dolan,” 227
Donnelly, Reverend Gerard B., 429
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 372, 570
Dowling, Eddie, 617–18, 620–21, 658
Dowson, Ernest, 144
Draper, George, 457, 466, 653, 654
Dream of the West (clipper ship), 440–41
Dream Play, The (Strindberg), 218
Dreamy Kid, The (O’Neill), 177
Dreiser, Theodore, 103, 110, 256, 445, 468, 520, 526
Drew, Tuwe, 41, 66, 68, 70, 71
drinking by Eugene, xv, xix