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By Women Possessed

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by Arthur Gelb


  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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