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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

 

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