by Arthur Gelb
Agnes and, 30, 32, 40, 42, 65–66, 90, 91, 96, 98, 107, 110, 123–24, 129, 150, 183, 185, 223, 252, 259, 264, 273, 277, 280–81, 570, 635
“Alcohol and the Nervous System” (Purvis-Stewart), 265–66
Carlotta and, xix, 50, 51–53, 54, 63, 65–66, 67, 68, 69–70, 71, 75, 97, 123, 447–48, 449, 450, 451, 452, 453, 454–55, 456–57, 469, 570, 637, 649–50, 652
childhood and, 162, 285
Ella’s death, 203
fractured arm, 653–57, 662, 666, 667
friends and, 39, 50–54, 63, 65–66, 89, 101, 115, 116, 117, 118, 149–50, 175, 179, 276, 289–90, 448, 453, 612, 653–54
James and, 144
Jamie and, 225
narcotic medication cravings, 721
opening nights and, 189, 190, 285
overboard incident, 276
psychoanalysis, 281–82, 284–86
sleeping pills and, 653–54
sobriety, 264, 266, 274, 285–86, 312, 313, 323, 334, 376, 447, 453–54, 457, 458, 666
“void” from sobriety, 292, 302–3
writing and, xix, 63, 64, 262–63, 267, 286, 454
See also marriage of Eugene and Agnes; marriage of Eugene and Carlotta; O’Neill, Eugene; specific bars
Drinkwater, John, 177
Driscoll (coal stoker), 193–94, 195, 515
Drivel Without End (De Casseres, Ben), 431
Drummer, Libbie, 198, 199, 200–201, 209
drunken delusion, 73
See also Iceman Cometh, The (O’Neill); Long Day’s Journey Into Night (O’Neill); Moon for the Misbegotten, A (O’Neill); Touch of the Poet, A (O’Neill)
Dukes, Charles, 473, 474, 475, 476, 478, 485, 492, 493, 508, 511, 544, 545, 552, 574
Duncan, Augustin, 195
Dunn, James, 642–43, 645
Dynamo (O’Neill), 55, 69–70
Earth’s the Limit, The (O’Neill), 443
Eastman, Max, 677
Ell, Christine, 87–88, 89–90, 91, 98–99, 227
Ellis, Charles, 257
Emperor Jones, The (O’Neill), 8, 174–80, 182, 191, 193, 195, 235, 241, 253, 256, 259, 290, 353
End of Days, An (O’Neill). See Days Without End (O’Neill)
Ervine, St. John, 395
Esteban, 59, 742–43, 745, 752, 753
Etting, Ruth, 596
Eugene O’Neill: A Critical Study (Winther), 466
“Eugene O’Neill’s Credo and His Reasons for His Faith,” 168–69
Euripides, 254
Everywoman, 6, 313
Exorcism (O’Neill), 140, 142–43, 514
family dysfunction, xv–xvi, 27, 362
See also Mourning Becomes Electra (O’Neill)
Far East voyage, 56–57, 59, 60, 61, 62–63, 62–64, 67, 68, 74–75, 77
Farley, James E., 698
farm motif, 251–52
See also Anna Christie (O’Neill); Beyond the Horizon (O’Neill); Desire Under the Elms (O’Neill); Moon for the Misbegotten, A (O’Neill)
Farrar, Geraldine, 22
Fashion (Mowatt), 257
Father, The (Strindberg), 218
Faulkner Hospital, 724, 725, 726–27
Feller, Clifford, 581
Feydeau, Georges, 152
Field, Betty, 744
Finn (Irish wolfhound), 222, 264, 278, 291, 293, 301, 339–40
Fire Under the Andes (Sergeant), 315
Firpo, Luis Angel, 409
First Man, The (O’Neill), 180–82, 183, 195, 199, 201, 220, 399
Fisk, Shirley, 654, 655, 656, 671, 690, 702, 710–11
Fitzgerald, Barry, 545, 642
FitzGerald, Edward, 420
Fitzgerald, Eleanor “Fitzi,” 351–52, 651
Flying Cloud (clipper ship), 390, 440, 441
Fontanne, Lynn, 10, 11, 12, 13
“For Alice” (O’Neill), 264
Forbes, James, 519
Ford, John, 544
Forest Hills Cemetery, 737, 759
For the Defense (Rice), 146, 149, 153
Fort St. George (steamship), 262, 291
Fountain, The (O’Neill), 187, 193, 277, 278, 279, 288
Fox Films, 544
Francis, John, 100, 108, 125, 271, 569
Frank, Waldo, 95, 570
Freeman, Herbert, 410–11, 442, 443, 477, 499, 552, 581, 583, 586, 599, 634, 635, 656, 661
“Free” (O’Neill), 34
Freud, Sigmund, 8, 256, 268, 284, 291, 497
Frost, Robert, 29, 677
Gable, Clark, 13
Gallup, Donald, 357–58, 657, 747, 748, 749, 750, 752, 753, 754, 756–57, 758, 759
Ganey, Joseph “Doc,” 277
Garbo, Greta, 79, 191
Gaylord Farm Sanatorium, 63, 130, 162, 232, 559
Gelb, Arthur, xiii–xiv, xv, xvi, xvii, xviii, xx, xxi–xxii, xxii–xxiii, xxiv, xxv, 296, 672, 734
Gelb, Barbara, xiii–xxv, 209–10, 296, 672, 734
Genius, The (Dreiser), 520
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Loos), 5
Germany, 122, 485, 493, 509, 510, 532, 546, 601, 617
See also Hitler, Adolf
Ghost Sonata, The (Strindberg), 208
Gierow, Karl R., 735–36, 740, 748, 749, 750
Gilbert, Ruth, 619
Gillmore, Margalo, 188–89
Gilpin, Charles S., 177, 179–80, 241, 425
Gish, Lillian, 348–49, 356, 367, 374, 375, 386, 387, 388, 426
Given, Eben, 185, 216, 223
Givens, Catherine (Shane’s wife), 613–15
Glaspell, Susan, 127, 176, 196, 236, 237, 395
Glass Menagerie, The (Williams), 617
Globe, 37, 190
Goddard, Paulette, 579
Gold, Michael, 105, 179
Goldman, Emma, 88, 126, 182, 420, 524–25, 532
Gold (O’Neill), 173, 182, 183–84, 193
See also Where the Cross Is Made (O’Neill)
Good Bad Woman, A (play), 271
Gorky, Maxim, 372, 505
Gotchett, Nellie (Carlotta’s mother), 17, 18–19, 20, 21, 22–23, 48, 403, 473
Gould, Jay, 440, 441
Gray’s Anatomy, 380
Great God Brown, The (O’Neill), xix, 207–8, 267–70, 269, 270, 272, 277, 280, 282, 285–87, 288, 289, 290, 292, 311, 390, 400, 437, 495, 615
Greek tragedies, 62, 79, 248, 254, 361, 393, 439
Greene, Elizabeth “Betty” (Eugene Jr.’s first wife), 385–86, 408, 508
Gregory, Lady, 535
Grimm’s Fairy Tales, 600
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (Freud), 291
Guardsman, The (Molnár), 28
Hair of the Dog, The (O’Neill), 451–52
See also Touch of the Poet, A (O’Neill)
Hairy Ape, The (O’Neill), 8, 15, 16, 23, 59, 190, 192, 193–95, 196, 199, 200, 201–2, 202, 203, 211, 212–13, 235, 242, 259, 268, 295, 296, 298, 353, 377, 639, 673–74, 745
Hamilton, Clayton, 502
Hamilton, Gilbert, 281–82, 284–86, 291, 311, 324–25, 456–57
Hamlet (Shakespeare), 538
Hammond, Edward C., 460, 529
Hammond, Percy, 190, 247
hand tremors, 391, 438, 502, 544, 570, 572, 573, 587, 595, 598, 599, 618, 638, 648, 662, 663, 664, 666, 667, 670, 672, 679, 715, 735
Hapgood, Hutchins, 105, 527, 528, 529
Harem, The (play), 271
Harkness, Edward S., 460, 529
Harper & Brothers, xiv, xv
Harper’s Bazaar, 5
Harvard, 35, 138, 163, 292, 343, 700
Haunted, The (O’Neill), 366, 369, 389, 391
Hauptmann, Gerhart, 404
Havel, Hippolyte, 531
Haxton, Gerald, 453
Haydon, Julie, 356
Hayes, Helen, 148, 188, 744
Hayward, Sally (Eugene Jr.’s third wife), 508, 510, 621
Hearst, William Randolph, 242, 243
Hedda Gabler (Ibsen), 387
Heidt, Joe, 382, 383–84, 612, 645, 714–15
Helburn, Theresa, 54, 322, 329–30, 353, 387, 451, 478, 484, 586, 644
“Hell Hole” (Golden Swan), 87–89, 92, 98, 102–3, 104, 106, 129, 145, 150, 253, 504, 521, 526, 532, 533
Hellman, Lillian, 646
Hepburn, Katharine, 411
Hiebert, Daniel, 138
Hiller, Wendy, 744
Hippolytus (Euripides), 254
Hitler, Adolf, 485, 493, 509, 545, 546, 548, 554, 570, 571, 573–74, 584, 617
See also Germany
Hoff, H. Richard, 758
Hoffman, Irving, 538
Holladay, Louis, 101–3, 102, 104–5, 524, 532, 534
Hollis, Mr., 595, 596
Hollywood Reporter, The, 538
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 29, 489
Homecoming (O’Neill), 366, 368, 389, 391
Homer, 363
Hoover, Herbert, 415
Hoover, J. Edgar, 245
Hopkins, Arthur, 23, 184, 188, 189, 196, 212, 235, 236, 260, 650
Horwitz, William H., 693, 699, 712
“Hound of Heaven” (Thompson), 105–6
Howard, Sidney, 28, 292, 395
Hughie (O’Neill), 550, 551, 591, 594, 599
Hunted, The (O’Neill), 366, 368, 389, 391
Huntington, Collis, 440
Huston, Walter, 257, 650
Huxley, Aldous, 263
Hylan, John Francis, 243, 246
Ibsen, Henrik, 97, 136, 387, 395
Iceman Cometh, The (O’Neill), xiii, xiv, 10, 39, 73, 140, 497, 502–7, 508–9, 510–11, 512, 513, 514–15, 516, 517–26, 531–42, 543, 547–48, 550, 554, 586, 591, 594, 604–5, 609, 610, 611, 616–21, 623, 624, 625–27, 628–29, 629–32, 637, 640–41, 645, 646, 649, 659, 666, 672, 673, 674–75, 676, 706, 738, 741
See also anarchist movement 1900s; Long Day’s Journey Into Night (O’Neill); pipe dreams and survival; “Tomorrow” (O’Neill)
Ikalis (tramp steamer), 110
‘Ile (O’Neill), 75
“I love every bone in their heads,” xx, 190–91
“immoral” play, 271–72
See also Desire Under the Elms (O’Neill)
“Imp of the Perverse, The” (Poe), 302–3
“In After Days” (Dobson), 730–31
Informer, The (movie), 544
Ingham, Dr., 200
Inscriptions: Eugene O’Neill to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill (O’Neill, C.), 358, 750
interracial hysteria over All God’s Chillun Got Wings (O’Neill), 242–46, 247
In the Zone (O’Neill), 119, 126
Iscariot, Judas, 540
“It Cannot Be Mad” (O’Neill), 62
Ives, Burl, 639
Japan, atomic bombing of, 604
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 571
jazz, 184, 614, 671
Jelliffe, Belinda and Smith Ely, 260–61
Jenkins, George (Kathleen’s father), 136
Jenkins, Kate (Kathleen’s mother), 136
Jenkins, Kathleen. See O’Neill, Kathleen
Jest, The (Barrymore brothers), 196
“Jesus wept” story of the Gospel, Lazarus Laughed (O’Neill), 288
Jimmy the Priest’s, 95, 140, 141–42, 194, 275, 503, 504, 505, 513, 514, 535, 711
Johnston, John, 332, 333
Jolson, Al, 595, 596
Jones, Robert Edmond “Bobby,” 23, 184, 188, 235, 237, 241, 246, 257, 260, 279–80, 290, 390, 422, 650, 670, 694
Judge, 5
Jung, Carl, 284
Kahn, Otto, 569
Kantor, Louis, 50–54, 63, 65, 223, 245–46, 288, 653
Katz, Aaron E., 493–94
Kaufman, Agnes Boulton and Morris “Mack,” 575, 578, 612, 752
See also O’Neill, Agnes
Kaufman, George S., 395
Keane, Doris, 234
Keats, John, 155
Keefe, Ed, 251, 275–76
Kemp, Harry, 87
Kennedy, Charles O’Brien, 190, 196, 486, 648, 670, 707
Kenton, Edna, 236–37
Kerrigan, J. M., 642
Kingsley, Sidney, 424
Kinsey, Alfred C., 281
Kipling, Rudyard, 725
Kirkman, Mr., 528, 529
Komroff, Manuel, 256, 376–77
Koonen, Alice, 371
Kozol, Harry L., 700, 703, 704, 706, 707, 711, 712, 714, 719, 720, 721–22, 723, 724, 732, 734, 737, 759
Kronenberger, Louis, 630
Krutch, Joseph Wood, 7, 192, 284, 352, 361
Kushner, Tony, 688
La Bohème (Puccini), 130
Ladies of the Evening (play), 271
“lady play,” Strange Interlude (O’Neill), 291, 292, 309
Lander, Ruth (Eugene Jr.’s lover), 621, 679–80, 682, 683, 684, 710
Lane, Nathan, 513
Langner, Lawrence, 10, 12, 29, 286, 316–18, 320, 321, 322, 329, 334, 366, 408–9, 418, 419, 428, 451, 458–59, 472, 478, 492, 547, 573, 574, 591, 610, 628–29, 642, 643, 645, 675, 686, 692, 694, 695, 696, 697, 698, 700–701, 710, 711, 716, 719, 721, 724
Lantz, Sherlee Weingarten, 649, 709–10, 713, 716–17
See also Weingarten, Sherlee
Larimore, Earle, 388, 427
“Last Conquest, The” (O’Neill), 548–49
Last Supper, The (Leonardo da Vinci), 540
“Last Will and Testament of Silverdeen Emblem O’Neill, The” (O’Neill), 553–54
Latimore, Frederick Palmer, 421
Lawrence, Gertrude, 79
Lazarus Laughed (O’Neill), 276, 278, 288–89, 291, 292, 299, 302, 350
Leonardo da Vinci, 540
Le Plessis, 77–78, 79, 134, 347, 350, 353, 355, 356, 359, 367, 368–69, 373, 374, 376, 377, 378, 381, 402, 454, 467, 546, 592, 714
Lewis, Alfred Henry, 725
Lewis, Sinclair, 45, 47, 372, 468
Lewis, Ted, 596
Lewisohn, Sam, 125, 569
Lewys, Georges, 80
Life, 5
Life with Father (Lindsay and Crouse), 423
Life with Monte Cristo (Gelb and Gelb), xviii
Light, James, 140, 213, 216, 245, 246, 253, 314–15, 639
Light, Patty, 314–15
Light on the Path (Collins), 57
Lindbergh, Charles, 322, 405, 725
Lindsay, Howard, 423, 638
Liveright, Horace, 256, 376, 418, 569
Logan, Joshua, 631, 696
London, Jack, 103, 526
Long Day’s Journey Into Night (O’Neill), xiv, xv, 6, 18, 66, 73, 139, 140, 142, 163, 166, 187, 205, 206, 207, 227, 228, 230, 239, 256, 325, 327, 365, 399, 446, 460, 497–98, 498, 502–7, 511, 529, 543, 544, 545, 546, 547, 548, 549, 551, 555–60, 561, 567, 570, 571, 594, 611, 613, 675, 685, 720, 722, 726, 728–29, 732, 733, 739, 740, 741, 742, 744
See also Iceman Cometh, The (O’Neill); Moon for the Misbegotten, A (O’Neill); More Stately Mansions (O’Neill)
Long Voyage Home, The (movie), 63, 75, 91, 544–45, 715
See also S.S. Glencairn (O’Neill)
Loos, Anita, 5
Lord, Pauline, 189, 190
Los Angeles Times, 524
Love and Admiration and Respect (Commins, D.), 695
Lower Depths, The (Gorky), 372
Lunt, Alfred, 10, 11, 12
Macgowan, Kenn
eth, 4, 37–38, 47, 78, 90, 190, 195, 223, 235, 237, 241, 246, 253, 256–57, 260, 271, 272, 273–74, 275, 279–80, 281, 284, 288, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293, 301, 302, 309–10, 312, 313, 317, 324, 339, 359, 369, 375, 470, 474, 494–95, 504, 510, 519, 520, 541, 549, 563, 568, 569, 598, 611, 670, 676, 707–8
Mackay, Catherine (Eugene’s girlfriend), 130
MacKellar, Helen, 146–47
Madden, Richard J., 57, 59, 126, 147–48, 193, 294, 375, 451, 467, 569, 724
Maid of the Ozarks, The (play), 644
Mai-mai, Sze, 480, 511, 670, 706
Major Writers of America (Bentley), 673
Malcolm X, 241
Mann, Theodore, 744–45
Manning, Doris, 672, 694
Man on Iron Horseback (O’Neill), 441
“Man with a Mask, The” (Sergeant), 29–30, 315, 624
Marbury, Elisabeth, 294–97, 299, 301, 303
Marchand, Damon, 104
Marco Millions (O’Neill), 10–11, 26, 57, 257, 266–67, 277, 303, 304, 316, 317, 330, 333, 334, 335, 336, 339, 412, 421, 436
Marcus, Carol, 563–64, 575–76, 577, 578, 582
Marinoff, Fania, 348–49, 358, 408, 409, 567–68, 658, 659
Markham, Marcella, 619–20
marriage of Eugene and Agnes (Eugene’s second wife), 120–21
affair (Eugene and Carlotta), 6, 7, 304–7, 308–9, 310, 311, 312, 314, 315, 318–19, 321–22, 323, 328–29, 330–31, 333, 334, 338, 401
Barbara and, 200, 215, 216–17, 223, 260, 276, 289, 293, 302
“beautiful young ladies” ploy, 186–87
blame for failure on Agnes, 42, 337
childless vow, 26, 30, 109, 132, 181
dissolution of marriage, 85–86, 120–21, 133, 170, 180–82, 183, 217, 219, 223–24, 232, 233, 235, 238, 240, 248–49, 253, 277, 293, 294–97, 298–303, 597
divorce, Eugene thinking, 278, 289, 334
drinking by Agnes, 90, 185, 292, 334, 342, 575, 745, 752
Ella and, 188
Eugene Jr. and, 213, 214, 216, 272–73
fatherhood, 132–33, 135–36, 248, 259–60
financial issues, 126, 256, 289, 290
hatred of Agnes by Eugene, 85, 252, 480, 481, 507, 561, 564, 567, 577, 580
jealousy of Eugene, 97, 98, 99–100, 123
letters sold to Harvard and Yale, 343
Louise Bryant, xvii, 92–93, 93–94, 94–95, 96, 99, 100, 110, 112, 113–18, 120, 311, 337, 455–56, 745
psychoanalysis, 282, 285
reconciliations, 98–99, 124, 144, 155–56, 318–19, 320
tea party at Elisabeth Marbury’s, 294–97
See also Desire Under the Elms (O’Neill); divorce of Eugene and Agnes; drinking by Eugene; First Man, The (O’Neill); Monterey, Carlotta; O’Neill, Agnes; O’Neill, Eugene; Welded (O’Neill); specific homes