By Women Possessed

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

  The page numbers in this index refer to the printed version of this book. The link provided will take you to the beginning of that print page. You may need to scroll forward from that location to find the corresponding reference on your e-reader.

  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