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Quinlan, Thomas (Ella’s father), 206
Quinn, Arthur Hobson, 259
Quintero, José, 66, 517, 518, 541–42, 551, 647, 659, 663, 675, 741, 744, 746, 750–51, 754–56
Radovan, Kaye, 473, 475, 476, 587
See also Albertoni, Kaye
Random House, 81, 418, 611, 640, 720, 727, 732, 739
Reed, Florence, 298, 299–301
Reed, John, xvii, 92–93, 94, 95, 99, 110, 112, 113, 114, 116, 125, 371, 455, 456, 527
Reed, Marion, 198–99, 200, 215
Regent Hospital, 745, 751, 752, 753
“religion of electricity,” Dynamo (O’Neill), 54
Renner, Alexander, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69
repetition used in Iceman Cometh, The (O’Neill), 541, 542, 623, 629, 630, 631
Research in Marriage, A (Hamilton), 281
Rice, Elmer, 146, 149, 153, 395
Richardson, Natasha, 192
Ridges, Stanley, 427
Riley, James Whitcomb, 725
Ring des Nibelungen (Wagner), 439
Road Is Before Us, The (O’Neill, A.), 578–79
Robards, Jason, Jr., 517, 518, 551, 675
robber barons, 440, 460, 529
See also Long Day’s Journey Into Night (O’Neill); Moon for the Misbegotten, A (O’Neill); Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed, A (O’Neill)
Robeson, Paul, 179–80, 241, 244, 245, 247, 275
Robins, Elizabeth, 206–7, 558
Robinson, Lennox, 415, 470, 535
Robinson, Sugar Ray, 486
Rockmore, Robert, 27, 33, 568
Rogers, F. Theo, 69–70
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 415, 456, 467, 493, 654
Roosevelt, Theodore, 536
Rope, The (O’Neill), 101, 120, 250
Rosenthal, A. M., xvii
Rosie (electric piano), 425–26, 453
Ross, Harold, 359, 380
Rossetti, Christina, 666
Royle, Selena, 427
Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám, The (Fitzgerald), 420
Rubin, Jane, 724, 747–48, 752, 753, 754, 756, 757
Russia, 92, 93, 96, 100, 113, 114, 115, 289, 370–72, 387, 397, 456, 478, 492
Ryskind, Morrie, 395
Saint Joan (Shaw), 13, 28, 629
Saki (houseman), 672, 675, 690, 700
Salem Hospital, 690, 691, 692, 693, 695, 696, 697, 698, 701
Salinger, J. D., 564, 575, 578, 582
Sam, Vilbrun Guillaume, 175–76
Sandy, Sarah, 169, 285, 325
San Francisco Sunday Call, 19–20
Saroyan, William, 576, 578, 582, 617
Saturday Evening Post, 263, 725
Saturday Review of Literature, 471, 630
Sayler, Oliver, 193, 215, 219, 235, 236
Schmidt, Matthew A., 524
Schriftgiesser, Karl, 627
Scott, Adam, 176
Sea-Mother’s Son, The (O’Neill), 323–24, 325, 361, 439, 440
sea/seaman, xv, 3, 34, 59, 60, 63, 75, 98, 101, 109, 110–11, 122, 130, 133, 135, 159, 193–94, 221, 251, 257, 322, 323, 324, 353, 390, 515, 516, 538, 544, 545, 601, 625, 667, 670, 711
See also Bound East for Cardiff (O’Neill); Chris Christophersen (O’Neill); Emperor Jones, The (O’Neill); Hairy Ape, The (O’Neill); ‘Ile (O’Neill); Long Voyage Home, The (movie); Moon of the Caribbees, The (O’Neill); S.S. Glencairn (O’Neill)
Seattle Daily Times, 469
Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley, 29–30, 32, 38, 65, 67–68, 189, 194, 208, 288, 292, 315–16, 317, 557, 599, 600, 623–25
Seven Arts, The, 95, 514, 570
sexual yearnings, 5, 7, 291
See also Desire Under the Elms (O’Neill); Strange Interlude (O’Neill)
“Shadow Eyes,” 4
Shakespeare, William, xvi, 395, 410, 439, 538, 570, 615, 673
Shanghai, 64, 66, 67, 68, 74, 123, 347, 447, 448, 457, 588, 652, 756
Shanghai Gesture, The (play), 299
Shaw, George Bernard, 13, 28, 97, 101, 286, 316, 317, 410, 415, 418, 446, 470, 518, 629, 673
Shay, Mary (Carlotta’s aunt), 18, 23
Shearer, Norma, 13
Sheldon, Edward, 292, 615
Shelton Hotel, 703, 713, 714, 719, 724, 725, 726, 727, 737, 738
Shepard, Richard, 685
Sheridans, 200, 209, 226, 447
Sherwood, Robert, 677
Shields, Arthur, 643
“show shop,” Broadway, 288, 351, 436
Shuberts, 13, 21, 22
“sickness of Today, materialism of Tomorrow,” Dynamo (O’Neill), 54–55
Silver Tassie, The (O’Casey), 436
Simon, Bernard, 251–52, 253
Simonson, Lee, 436, 440, 457, 650
Sinclair, Upton, 470
Singer, I. J., 568
Sisk, Robert, 426, 445, 451, 470, 585
Skinner, Richard Dana, 451, 501
Smart Set, The, 75, 122, 160
Smith, Joe, 39, 533
Snow, John, 686–87, 691, 694
Snyder, Charles, 644
So Short a Time (Gelb, B.), xvii
SoundScriber, 591–92, 611
space-time continuum, Long Day’s Journey Into Night (O’Neill), 446
“special matinees,” 146–47, 148, 152
speech-thought method. See spoken asides
Spengler, Oswald, 510, 670
Speyer, James “Papa,” 4, 30–31, 33, 60–61, 78, 338, 357, 369, 374, 443, 450, 451, 472, 567, 568, 636, 660
Spirit of St. Louis, The (Lindbergh), 725
spirituality, 399, 405, 418, 419, 430, 459, 503
See also Catholicism; Days Without End (O’Neill); Fountain, The (O’Neill); Iceman Cometh, The (O’Neill); Lazarus Laughed (O’Neill); Long Day’s Journey Into Night (O’Neill); Touch of the Poet, A (O’Neill); Without Endings of Days (O’Neill)
Spithead, 3, 26, 31, 32, 33, 41, 42, 44, 46, 47, 78, 142, 143, 290–91, 313, 314, 315, 319, 325, 331–32, 333, 334, 335, 336, 338, 339, 398, 437, 467, 668, 727
spoken asides in Strange Interlude (O’Neill), 8, 11, 12, 309, 316, 317, 321, 368
Spook Sonata (Strindberg), 354
S.S. André le Bon (ship), 57, 60, 62–63
S.S. Berengeria (ship), 33–35
S.S. Coblenz (ship), 68–70, 71, 72
S.S. Glencairn (O’Neill), 98, 257, 544, 675
See also Long Voyage Home, The (movie)
S.S. Ikala (steam freighter), 515
S.S. New York (liner), 515
S.S. Philadelphia (liner), 193–94, 515
S.S. Statendam (liner), 376, 378–79
St. Luke’s Hospital, 752, 753, 754, 755–57
St. Mary’s Cemetery, 167, 208, 487–88
Stagecoach (movie), 544, 545
Stalin, Joseph, 648
Stanley, Kim, 744
“staying put in any comfortable niche” (not), 173–74
Steele, Wilbur Daniel, 257
Stein, Matisse and Gertrude, 118
Sterne, Maurice, 125
Stoeckel, Herbert, 623
Storm, The (play), 146
Stram, Gerald Eugene (Cynthia and Roy’s son), 747
Stram, Roy (Cynthia’s husband), 473, 491, 508, 511, 649
Strange Interlude (O’Neill), 3–14, 4, 5, 9, 12, 26, 28–29, 33, 38, 41, 48–49, 65, 80–81, 106, 120, 153, 276, 291, 299, 303, 309, 310, 313, 314, 316–18, 317, 320, 321, 323, 324, 330, 333, 334, 336, 339, 366, 368, 375, 388, 390, 391, 418, 419, 437, 493, 502, 538, 580, 628, 645
Straw, The (O’Neill), 130, 132, 136, 140, 147, 148, 159, 184, 186, 188–89, 192, 195, 232, 256, 257
Strindberg, August, 28, 56–57, 180–81, 208, 217–19, 232, 238, 286, 3
54, 372, 395, 449, 471, 592, 609, 615, 705, 713
suicide and
Carlotta, 633–34, 635
Eugene Jr., 678, 680–81, 682–83, 684, 686, 687, 694, 696
Ralph Barton, 380–82, 383, 579, 712
Shane, 684–85
suicide and Eugene, 28, 140–42, 275, 364, 365, 503, 504, 513, 514, 687, 710, 729
See also Exorcism (O’Neill); Hairy Ape, The (O’Neill); Iceman Cometh, The (O’Neill); “Tomorrow” (O’Neill)
Sumner, John S., 242–43
Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre, 740, 748, 749
Sweet, Blanche, 191
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 97, 136
Swope, Herbert Bayard, 12
Synge, John Millington, 535
Taasinge, Christian Nielsen (Carlotta’s father), 17
Taft, William Howard, 536
Tailleferre, Germaine, 348
Tairov, Alexander, 370–71
Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed, A (O’Neill), 324, 439–40, 460, 462, 464, 565, 566, 626
See also Cycle play
Tao House, 476–78, 480, 483, 484, 485–86, 490, 492, 494, 498–99, 500, 544, 555, 561, 563, 564, 574, 575, 576, 577, 581, 582–84, 585, 586, 588–89, 590, 594, 595, 599, 611, 617, 625, 646, 671, 714
Tearle, Geoffrey, 148
Telegraph, 142, 235, 421, 503–4, 653
Tellegen, Lou, 22
Temple of Pallas-Athenae, The (Lewys), 80
temptress unknown, 26, 287, 310
See also Monterey, Carlotta
Ten Days That Shook the World (Reed), 93
Tharsing, Hazel Nielsen, 17–21, 23, 38, 53, 78, 79, 402, 567, 588
See also Monterey, Carlotta
Tharsing, Nellie Gotchett (Carlotta’s mother), 17, 18–19, 20, 21, 22–23, 48, 403, 473
Theatre Guild, 10, 13, 54, 62, 286, 316, 317, 318, 320, 321, 322, 328, 329, 330, 333, 366, 375, 378, 380, 382, 383, 384, 387, 391, 404, 418, 422–23, 425, 426, 430, 452, 471, 484, 586, 604, 612, 618, 628, 629, 643, 645, 646, 716
They Knew What They Wanted (Howard), 28
Thirst (O’Neill), 94–95, 566
“Thirteenth Apostle” (O’Neill), 548–49, 554
Thomas, Augustus, 241
Thomas F. Oakes (clipper ship), 390
Thompson, Francis, 400, 512
Threepenny Opera, The (Weill), 742
Thus Spake Zarathustra (Nietzsche), 379
Time, 630, 631, 644, 704, 728
“Time Grandfather Was Dead” (O’Neill), 548, 554
Time of Your Life, The (Saroyan), 617
Times Literary Supplement, The, 673, 674
“timid recorders of life,” 7–8
Tinney, Frank, 595
Tolstoy, Leo, 372, 518
tombstone, Eugene’s, xxv, 599, 738
“Tomorrow” (O’Neill), 95, 513–14, 532, 570
See also Iceman Cometh, The (O’Neill)
Tone, Franchot, 744
Toscanini, Arturo, 439
Touch of the Poet, A (O’Neill), 73, 187, 444, 452, 459–65, 489, 494, 495, 550, 565–66, 567, 574, 591, 594, 611, 618, 623, 638, 645, 675, 721, 742, 744
See also Cycle play; Hair of the Dog, The (O’Neill)
tragedies, xiv, xvi, xx, 3, 8, 62, 79, 191, 248, 254, 386, 393, 395, 439, 609–10, 632
Traveling Salesman, The (Forbes), 519
Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (movie), 643
triumvirate, 235, 237, 241, 246, 257, 266, 277, 289, 290
See also Jones, Robert Edmond; Macgowan, Kenneth; O’Neill, Eugene
Trouble in the Flesh (Wylie, M.), 343
Tucker, Benjamin, 103, 379, 518, 526
Tucker, John, 691
Tuileries, 376
Tunney, Gene, 409, 410
“Turn Back the Universe and Give Me Yesterday,” 91
Twain, Mark, 221, 223, 725
Tyler, George, 140, 145–46, 147, 148, 150, 151, 156, 159–60, 167, 171, 174, 184, 188, 189, 192, 236, 535
Ullman, Allen, 118–19
Ullman, Sarah, 341
Underwood, Brigadier Edward, 242
Unique Book Store, 379, 518, 526
Vanderbilt, Gloria, 563
Vanity Fair, 5, 12, 350
Van Vechten, Carl, 17, 348, 353, 357–58, 381, 426, 451, 494, 585, 598–99, 640, 658
Varnished Brass (Gelb, B.), xvii
veronal tablets, 142, 275, 281
Villa, Pancho, 93
Villa Marguerite, 40–41, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 58, 60, 447, 457
“Visit of Malatesta, The” (O’Neill), 554
Vogue, 22
Volstead Act, 144, 145
Voodoo (play), 244
Vose, Donald and Gertie, 524–25
Wagnerian opera, 439
Walker, Jimmy, 16
Wallace, Tom, 89, 521, 533
Wallerstedt, Carl E., 475
Walsh, Nettie, 205–6
War and Peace ( Tolstoy), 372
Waters, Joy Bluck, 332
Watts, Richard, Jr., 286, 422, 630
Wayne, John, 545
Weeks, Richard, 649
Weill, Kurt, 742
Weinberger, Harry, 40, 41, 43, 44–45, 46–47, 48, 55–56, 68, 74, 126, 340, 341, 350, 448, 450, 467, 481, 485, 487, 488, 507, 564, 565, 568, 569, 576, 577, 590, 591, 612
Weingarten, Sherlee, 618–19, 649–50, 653, 658, 660, 695
See also Lantz, Sherlee Weingarten
Welch, Mary, 642
Welded (O’Neill), 217, 219–20, 232–34, 235, 237, 238, 240, 249, 250, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 399, 461, 647
Welles, Orson, 564
Welton, Jean, 725–26, 727, 732, 734, 737, 759
West Point Pleasant (Old House), 126–27, 128, 129, 131, 259, 290, 321, 752
What Is Wrong with Marriage? (Hamilton and Macgowan), 281
Where the Cross Is Made (O’Neill), 122, 125, 173, 184
See also Gold (O’Neill)
Whitehead, Robert, 647, 744
Wilde, Oscar, 97, 136
Wilder, Frank W., 202–3
Williams, Herbert, 19
Williams, John, 122, 125, 140, 146, 147–48, 150, 152, 153–54, 157, 160, 183, 184, 189, 192, 236
Williams, Malcolm, 299–300
Williams, Tennessee, xiv, 617, 631–32
Wilson, Earl, 564, 566, 622, 623
Wilson, Woodrow, 131, 536
Winchell, Walter, 374–75, 631
Winston, Norman, 27, 28, 32, 33, 39, 568
Winther, Sophus and Eline, 417, 429, 466, 467, 468, 469, 472, 555, 557, 568, 569, 599, 600, 610, 632–36, 637–38, 639, 648, 668–69, 670, 704–6, 713, 714, 731–32
Within the Gates (O’Casey), 436
Without Endings of Days (O’Neill), 62, 325–26, 398–99, 405, 407–8, 411, 412, 414, 415–16
See also Days Without End (O’Neill)
Wolfville stories (Lewis, A.), 725
Wolheim, Louis, 196, 253, 639
Woods, Alice, 118, 119, 120
Woolf, S. J., 627
Woollcott, Alexander, 12–13, 143, 153, 160, 178, 190, 201, 211, 235, 247, 279
World War I, 23, 93
World War II, 485, 493, 499, 502, 508, 509, 510, 545–46, 546–47, 548, 561, 566, 571, 573, 574, 582, 594, 597, 598, 603, 604, 617, 625, 626
Wycherly, Margaret, 244
Wylie, Francis, 704, 728
Wylie, Max and Philip, 342–43
Yale, 79, 143, 292, 343, 350, 353, 357, 358, 386, 410, 420, 458, 479, 621–22, 680, 734, 739, 742, 746, 747, 748, 750, 753
Yeats, William Butler, 415, 431, 470, 535
Yordan, Philip, 143
Young, Courtland, 56
Young, Stark, 232–33, 234, 258
Young’s Magazine, 56
Zolotow, Sam, 497, 501
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