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A. K., 326 compared with The Ancient Mariner, A. McC. S., 509 378–79 Abbey Players of Dublin, xxi compared with , 369, Abbott, Berenice, 49, 51 372, 381, 385 Abbott, George, 823 compared with , 381–82 Abel, Walter compared with Marco Millions, 534 , 405 compared with Welded, 376–77, 385 S. S. Glencairn, 389, 399–400 mentioned in other reviews, 421 Abraham Lincoln (Drinkwater), 116, 122, production, 383–84 125, 129–31 racial theme, xxvii Adams, Henry, 664, 683–84 as realism, 379–80, 381 Aeschylus, xxxi, 693, 696, 715, 719–20, 723, Allen, Eugene Kelcey,25 725, 727, 729, 914 Allen, Kelcey, 159, 245, 268, 323, 362, 365, Ah, Wilderness! 443–45, 477, 519, 560, 757–58, 761, reviews, 733–58 835–36 as autobiography, 740, 752, 756 Allen, Ruth Collins, 49, 51 as comedy, 736, 738, 739–40, 742, 746–50, Ambush (Richman), 206 754–56 America, 596, 721, 753, 789–90, 826, compared with Days Without End, 768, 892–93, 913, 967–68 772, 774, 776 American Mercury, The, xii, 343, 361, 432, compared with Dynamo, 751, 753 471, 514, 608 compared with The First Man, xxxii, 756 American Review, 439 compared with , xxxii American Theater (St. Louis), 837 compared with , 802 Ames, Kirk, 363 compared with Marco Millions, 755 Amoureuse (Porto-Riche), 343–44 compared with , Ancient Mariner, The 736, 746, 751 reviews, 349–62 compared with , 751 compared with All God’s Chillun Got compared with , 913 Wings, 378–79 compared with Welded, 756 compared with The Fountain, 453 Pittsburgh production, x, xxxi as expressionist drama, 360 production and staging, xxxi, 737, 745, 751 Japanese No drama and, 360 Ahearn, John, 21, 25 production and staging, 355, 356–59, Akins, Zoe,¨ 206 360–61 Albee, Edward, xxxvi Anders, Glenn Alderson, Erville, 59, 62, 64–67, 69–72, 74, Dynamo, 635–38, 642–43, 670, 681 78 Strange Interlude, 557–59, 562, 566, 574, Alexander, Arthur, 617, 622, 628, 631 579, 583, 605 Alfie (film), 929 Anderson, Eloise, 363 All God’s Chillun Got Wings Anderson, John, 391, 446, 477, 523, 562, reviews, 363–87 637, 686–87, 691, 735, 761, 772

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Anderson, Ole, 181 B. D., 454, 474 Anderson, Ruth, 53, 80 Babbitt, 508, 523, 532, 535–36, 537, 541, Anderson, Sherwood, 611 543, 545, 548, 552 Andrews, Harry, 247 Back to Methuselah (Shaw), 250, 279–80, Andrews, Kenneth, 236, 303 529, 568, 611 Andreyev, Lionel, 213–14, 256, 724 Baker, Elizabeth, 265 Anglin, Margaret, 164 Baker, Lee, 689, 715 Ankrum, Morris, 443 Ballantine, Edward J. “” Ancient Mariner, The, 349, 352–54, 356, reviews, 181–215 359 compared with Beyond the Horizon, 199, Bound East for Cardiff,1 201–02 Gold, 157, 162, 164–67, 169–70, 172, compared with Chris, 183, 194, 199 175–76, 179 compared with Desire Under the Elms, S. S. Glencairn, 389 430 Baltimore Evening Sun,96 compared with Dynamo, 650 Balzerit, Edward, 5, 9 compared with The Emperor Jones, 201–02 Barbee, Richard, 759 compared with The First Man, 261–62 Barnes, Clive, 945 compared with The Hairy Ape, 285–86, Barnes, Howard, 794, 830, 835–36 289 Barnum, Patrick, 269 compared with The Iceman Cometh, 814 Barrat, Robert, 519 compared with A Moon for the Barretto, Larry, 466 Misbegotten, 843 Barrington, Lewis, 389 compared with The Straw, 201, 209–10, Barry, Philip, 778 214, 222, 228, 230, 233–35, 237–38, Barry, Stanley, 475 240–44 Barrymore, John, 423–24, 452 compared with Welded, 343, 346–47 Barrymore, Lionel, 162, 451–52, 457 mentioned in other reviews, 255, 391 Barton, James, 791, 794–96, 798, 801, 803, Moscow production, 435 805, 807–08, 814, 817, 834 production and staging, xxiv Basshe, Em Jo, 269 Pulitzer Prize for, xxiv Batterham, William Forster, 49 reception of, xxvi Baudelaire, Charles, 879 S. S. Glencairn production and, 393, 396, Baury, Louis, 267, 309 398, 402–03 Bean, Adelaide, 733 as tragedy, 206 Beaufort, John, 795, 873, 907 Anthony, Luther B., 179, 316, 347, 516, 559 Becque, Henri, 345 Appleyard, J. A., 892–93 Before Breakfast, xxiii, 40 Arbenz, Mary, 689 Begg, Jeannie, 113, 389, 395 Archer, William, 154, 170 Belasco, David, xxiv, 131–32, 282, 654, 811 Argonaut, The [San Francisco], 624 Bell, Lisle, 315 Argondona, Anterio, 269 Bell, Nelson B., 835–36 Arnold, Edward, 59, 62, 64, 66–67, 69–71, Bellamy, Francis R., 592, 662 74, 76, 78–82, 84, 88–89 Ben-Ami, Jacob, 129, 164, 321, 325–27, Arsenic and Old Lace (Kesselring), 800 332–35, 338, 340–46 Arts and Decoration, 206, 432, 469, 507, 548, Benchley, Robert C., 172, 203, 290, 341, 384, 602, 686–87 426, 464, 502–03, 542, 589, 670, 706 Arts Gazette,92 Benedict, Barbara, 363, 389 Ashley, Arthur, 97–101, 103–05 Benjamin, Romeyn, 405 Aston, Frank, 925–26 Bennett, Richard, 59, 62–67, 69–76, 78–82, Atkinson, J. Brooks, xxxi, xxxv, 447, 474, 84–86, 88–89, 91, 93, 95 479, 517, 524, 554–55, 564, 615, 638, Bentley, Eric, xxxiv, 835–36 686–87, 692, 732, 736–37, 757–58, 763, Benzies, Ralph, 443 778, 789–90, 793, 830, 835–36, 859, Bergman, Ingrid, 945, 948–51, 953–55, 957, 892–93, 897, 925–26 959–60, 963, 967 Atlantic Monthly, 835–36 Bernice (Glaspell), 84 Atwill, Lionel, 129 Bernstein, Henry, 206 Augustin, William, 181 Berry, Stanley, 443

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Beyond the Horizon Book of Job, The, 352 reviews, 59–96 Book of Revelations, The, 601 compared with “Anna Christie”, 199, Bookman, The, 134, 141, 236, 303, 342, 384, 201–02 402, 428, 466, 517, 676, 722 compared with Bound East for Cardiff, Booth, Fred, 49 89–90 Born Yesterday (Kanin), 829 compared with Days Without End, 775 Bosnell, James, 689 compared with Desire Under the Elms, 409, Boston Evening Transcript, 14, 19, 311, 362, 412–13, 415, 420, 430 474, 498, 551, 686–87, 732 compared with Diff’rent, 137, 147–50 Boston Post, 802, 843 compared with Dynamo, 682 Boston Sunday Globe, xxii compared with Emperor Jones, 123, Boston Toy Theatre, xxii 125–26, 131 Boulton, Agnes, xxv, xxvii compared with Exorcism, 111 Bound East for Cardiff compared with The First Man, 262, 268 reviews, 1–5 compared with Gold, 159, 161, 165, as Broadway precursor, 62 169–70, 172, 176 compared with Beyond the Horizon, compared with The Hairy Ape, 273, 286 89–90 compared with ,92 compared with Exorcism, 111 compared with Moon of the Caribbees,90 compared with The Fountain, 452 compared with The Rope, 89–90 compared with Ile,27 compared with Strange Interlude, 605 compared with The Rope,37 compared with The Straw, 224, 228, 230, dialogue, 33 233–34 as first O’Neill production, 12–13, 19 mentioned in other reviews, 100, 119, 571 mentioned in other reviews, 19–20, 66, 70 as O’Neill breakthrough play, xxiv, 124 praise for, 14 Pulitzer Prize for, xxiv S. S. Glencairn production, 391–92, 400–03 as realism/naturalism, 65, 69, 84–85 Wharf Theatre production, xxii as tragedy, 61, 63–65, 69–73, 77, 88, 90, Bowen, Stirling, 700, 745, 774 94–95 Bower, Helen, 850 Bigelow, Charles, 361 Boyce, Neith, xxii Bill of Divorcement, A (Dane), 206, 242 Boyd, Ernest, 209, 235, 676 Billboard, The, 96, 122, 140, 174, 233, 268, Brackett, Charles, 536, 577, 686–87 295, 338, 362, 401, 420, 458, 495, 537, Bradley, Louise, 389 578, 630, 661, 708, 746, 835–36, 850 Brady, Alice, 689, 696, 698–99, 703, 706, Bishop, John Peale,94 708, 713, 716, 724, 726, 729 Bizet, Georges, 608 Brecher, Egon, 443, 459, 463 Blair, Eugenie, 181, 183, 187, 189, 196, 202, Brewster, John, 349 203 Bridgers, Ann, 385 Blair, Mary Brieux, Eugene,` 220–21, 265 All God’s Chillun Got Wings, xxvii, 363, Brighouse, Harold, 23, 27 366, 369, 371, 374, 377, 379, 380, 384, Broad Street Theatre (Philadelphia), 97–99 385 Broadhurst Theatre (New York), 945 Diff’rent, 135–37, 139, 140–41, 145–48, Broadway productions (discussions of O’Neill 150, 153 on Broadway) Hairy Ape, The, xii, 269, 278–79, 281, 295 “Anna Christie”, 190, 206, 209–10 Marco Millions, 519 Beyond the Horizon, xxiv, 62, 72–73, 75, Blinn, Holbrook, 164 87–88, 89, 90 Blizzard on Marblehead Neck, A (Kushner and Diff’rent, xxv, 143–47, 150, 152–53 Tessori), xxxiv Emperor Jones, The, 129, 132–33, 150 Block, Ralph,7,19 experimental plays and, 544 Blon, Katherine T. Von, 631 Gold, xxv, 159 Boije, Alexander, 269 Hairy Ape, The, xii, 342 Bolton, Whitney, 649, 686–87, 732, 744, 771, Iceman Cometh, The, 795, 800, 819, 829, 870, 904, 938, 967–68 832 Boni & Liveright, 132–33 Long Day’s Journey Into Night, 914 Bonte, C. H., 106 Moon for the Misbegotten, A, 853

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Broadway productions (cont.) Caplan, Rupert, 349 , 957 Carb, David, 178, 342, 384, 473, 511, 548, Provincetown Players’ rebellion against, 613, 673 xxiii Carmody, Jay, 835–36 reviews selected for, ix Carnovsky, Morris, 519, 546 Touch of the Poet, A, 907, 910, 914 Carpenter, Edward Childs, 213–14 Welded, 342 Cass Theater (Detroit, Michigan), 837 Bromfield, Louis, 402, 428 Castellun, Maida, 121, 134, 139, 168, 195, Brooklyn Citizen, 835–36 259, 280 Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 7, 23, 38, 55, 75, 121, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Williams), 881 166, 191, 214–15, 222, 245, 268, 281, Cather, Willa, 577 318–19, 329, 347, 358, 374, 387, 396, Catholic Theater Movement, 850 408, 450, 487, 517, 530, 554–55, 573, Catholic World, 403, 436, 509, 615, 683, 725, 615, 686–87, 732, 757–58, 770, 803, 755, 782, 835–36, 892–93, 925–26 835–36 Cecil, Lawrence, 389 Broun, Heywood, xx, 3, 26, 33, 43, 47, 51, Cecil, Lord David, 831 61, 109, 116, 143, 154, 180, 199, 210, Cerf, Bennett, xxxv 226, 238, 256, 291, 351, 366, 407, 615 Chains (Baker), 265 Brown, Alfred H., 515 Chalk Circle, The, 559 Brown, Charles D., 157 Chalmers, Thomas, 689 Brown, Elizabeth, 135–37, 140, 146 Chalzel, Leo, 791, 795 Brown, George, 651 Chapin, Louis, 939 Brown, Gilmor, 601, 617, 621, 625, 627–28, Chapman, John, 797, 830, 835–36, 860, 898, 631 925–26, 929, 967–68 Brown, John Mason, 466, 505, 545, 601, 694, Chase, Ilka, 759, 773, 777, 781, 785 738, 764, 789–90, 812, 829 Chatfield-Taylor, Otis, 732 Browning, Natalie, 519 Chekhov, Anton, xxi, 80, 591, 818, 862, 906, Bruins, Charles, 617 925 Brush, Albert, 405 Cherie` (Goncourt), 151–52 Brustein, Robert, 924, 940 Cherry Orchard, The (Chekhov), 703 Bryant, Harold, 363 Chesterton, G. K., 965 Buck, Ashley, 157, 160, 164, 169, 172, Chicago Daily Tribune, 81, 169 175–76 Chicago Evening Post, 299 Bufano, Remo, 107 Chicago Little Theatre, xxii Buffalo Sunday Express, 347 Chorpenning, Ruth, 733 Bull, Harry, 829 Chris [Chris Christophersen] Bunce, Alan (actor), 247 reviews, 97–106 Bunce, Alan N. (critic), 951 compared with “Anna Christie”, 183, 194, Burby, Gordon, 247 199 Burns, Grace, 363 mentioned in other reviews, 56, 87 Burns, John J., 557–59 production and staging, x, xxiv Burr, Eugene, 708, 746 Christian Century, 889, 920 Burt, Frederic, 247, 258 Christian Science Monitor, 41, 77, 629, 795, Butler, John, 733 873, 907, 939 Buzzell, Francis, 1 Circle in the Square Theatre (New York), Byrne, Jack, 689 xxxv Byron, Lord, 280 Clancy, Tom, 895 Clark, Barrett H., xxv, 92, 467, 547, 599, Cabell, James Branch, 609 677, 726 Caesar and Cleopatra (Shaw), 537 Claw, The (Bernstein), 206 Cagney, Jeanne, 791, 795 Clegg, Henry, 150 Caldwell, Cy, 757–58 Cleveland News, 848 Call, John, 895 Cleveland Plain Dealer, 847, 855 Camille (Dumas), 219, 466 Cleveland Press, 846 Camus, Albert, 831 Cloches de Corneville, Les (Planquette), Candida (Shaw), 69 37 Canfield, Mary Cass, 358 Close the Book (Glaspell), 34, 37, 38–42

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Clurman, Harold (as director), 895, 897, 901, Cossart, Ernest, 519 903, 905, 909, 911–12, 919–20, 924 Cotton, George, 519 Clurman, Harold (as reviewer), 877, 943, Crabtree, Paul, 791, 795–96, 799, 801, 803, 958 809, 834 Cochrane, Roy, 97–99 Craig, Helen, 945 Cogswell, Esther M., 617 Craig, Polly, 363 Cohan, George M., 123, 456, 733, 735–37, Craven, Frank, 414 739–40, 742–45, 748, 750, 753, 755, 757 Crawford, Jack, 243 Cohen, Julius, 554–55, 732, 757–58, 789–90 Creditors (Strindberg), 339–40 Colbert, Claudette, 635–37, 642, 651, 670, Croce, Arlene, 963 681 Crothers, Rachel, 456 Colby, Ethel, 892–93, 925–26 Cue, 816, 876, 943 Cole, Dora, 363, 374, 380 Cyrano de Bergerac (Rostand), 451, 453, 458, Coleman, Glenn, 53 467 Coleman, Robert, 474, 481, 554–55, 615, Czarina, The (Sheldon), 343 732, 835–36, 861, 899 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 351–54, 355–56, Daddy’s Gone a-Hunting (Akins), 195, 206, 359 212 Collins, Catherine, 321, 325, 327, 332–33, Daily Worker, The, 535 334–35 Dale, Alan, 13, 34, 74, 81, 127, 144, 250, Collins, Hutchinson, 17, 45, 47–49 296, 318–19, 398, 455, 565 Collins, Russell, 791, 795, 834 Dallet, Liza, 443 Colum, Padraic, 679 Damon, Foster, 45 Columbus [OH] Citizen, 839, 840 Dance of Death (Strindberg), 343–44 Columbus [OH] Dispatch, 844 Dane, Clemence, 206 Columbus [OH] Register, 849 Darnton, Charles, 8, 35, 71, 196, 219, 297 Colvert, Leathe, 53 Dash, Thomas R., 640, 696, 862, 925–26 Comedy Theatre, 5, 12, 31–33 Davenport, Millia, 443 Commerce and Finance, 318 Davis, Richard Harding, 816 Commercial Advertiser, 155 Davis, W. L. Y., 633 Commonweal, 426, 461, 500, 539, 594, 665, Davis, William, 363 710, 751, 775, 789–90, 820, 887, 916, Dawson, N. P., 295 940, 962 Day, Marie L., 247, 251 Comrades (Strindberg), 339–40 Days Without End Condon, Eva, 247, 258 reviews, 759–90 Conley, Harold, 17 Boston production, x Connell, Leigh, 857 compared with Ah, Wilderness!, 772, 774, Conrad, Joseph, 24, 100–02, 122, 168–69, 776 174, 177, 200, 213–14, 399, 429, 601 compared with Beyond the Horizon, Conroy, Frank, 21, 23, 25, 27 775 Contempo, 726 compared with Dynamo, 764, 770, 772, Conway, Curt, 895 774–75, 778, 788 Cook, Elisha, Jr., 733, 741, 748, 750 compared with The Fountain, 762 Cook, George Cram “Jig,” xxii, 1, 17, 113, compared with The Great God Brown, 762, 122, 129–31 770, 772–73, 775 Cooke, Richard P., 798, 872, 925–26, 943, compared with The Iceman Cometh, 802, 967–68 827 Cooksey, Curtis compared with , 775 Fountain, The, 443 compared with Mourning Becomes Electra, Welded, 321, 325, 327, 332–33, 334–35 776 Cooper, Scott, 157 compared with Strange Interlude, 762, 770, Coray, Jerome, 617 772–73, 775 Corbin, John, 323, 351, 368, 387 compared with Welded, 788 Corley, Donald, 1 dual consciousness technique, 761–64, Cornell, Katharine, 221 768–71, 775 Corning, Ray, 443 production and staging, 763, 766, 770 Corrigan, Emmett, 97–05 religious trilogy, xxxii

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Dayton [OH] News,86 reviews, 135–55 De Casseres, Benjamin, 89, 548, 602, 632, compared with Beyond the Horizon, 137, 686–87 147–50 de Cordova, Rienzi, 5, 9 compared with The Emperor Jones, 137, De Foe, Louis V., 145, 160, 180, 184, 214–15, 138–39, 143, 145, 147–50, 153–54 227, 245, 251 compared with Gold, 163, 168, 176 Death of a Salesman (Miller), 881 compared with Mourning Becomes Electra, Decker, Karl, 377 704 Deeter, Jasper, 107, 109, 115, 121–23, compared with The Rope, 140 131–32 compared with The Straw, 228, 230, 238 Delano, Allen, 269 mentioned in other reviews, 175 Delf, Harry, 611 production and staging, xxv Deluge, The (Berger), 211–12 Digges, Dudley Dennis, Patrick, 925–26 Dynamo, 635–37, 654, 670, 681 Derr, Hume, 363, 405 Iceman Cometh, The, 791, 794–96, 801, Desire Under the Elms 805, 807, 808, 814, 817–18, 820, 834 reviews, 405–42 Marco Millions, 519, 546, 552 compared with “Anna Christie”, 430 Dillman, Bradford, 857, 861, 863, 867–68, compared with Beyond the Horizon, 409, 871–72, 874–76, 881, 884, 889 412–13, 415, 420, 430 Doctor’s Dilemma, The (Shaw), 524 compared with Dynamo, 638, 648, 650, Dodson, Jack, 927, 931, 933, 935–39, 942 651, 653, 662, 667, 668, 671, 673 Doll’s House, A (Ibsen), 196 compared with The Emperor Jones, 412–13, Doll’s House, The (Mansfield), 429 415, 430 Donnelly, Gerard B., 789–90 compared with The Great God Brown, 483, Donnelly, Tom, 863 510 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 213–14, 570, 572, 794, compared with The Hairy Ape, xxviii, 859, 915 412–13, 415, 419, 427, 430 Doucet, Catherine Calhoun, 635–37, 642, compared with The Iceman Cometh, 802 654, 670, 681 compared with Lazarus Laughed, 633 Dowling, Eddie, 791, 796, 807, 808, 813, 817, compared with Long Day’s Journey Into 818, 819, 831 Night, 859 Dowling, Vincent, 945 compared with Marco Millions, 549 Downer, Alan S., 966 compared with A Moon for the Downing, James, 841 Misbegotten, 852 Dowson, Ernest, 879 compared with Mourning Becomes Electra, Doyle, Louis F., 826 723, 727 Drama Calendar, 155, 203, 231, 262, 285, compared with S. S. Glencairn, 419, 427 336, 352, 399, 419, 456, 494, 586 compared with Strange Interlude, 559, 564, Drama, The, 148, 243, 467, 547, 599, 634, 605 677 compared with The Straw, 412–13 Dramatic Mirror, 14, 28, 43, 48, 80, 105, compared with Welded, 430 171, 200, 229 mentioned in other reviews, 402 Dramatist, The, 179, 316, 347, 516, 559 production and staging, 410, 412–13, 415, Dream Girl (Rice), 811, 829 419, 420–24, 427, 431–32 Dream Play, The (Strindberg), 508 reception of, xxviii Dreamy Kid, The Detroit Free Press, 850 reviews, 53–57 Detroit News, 318, 851 African American cast, xxiii Detroit Times, 852 Dreiser, Theodore, xxxiv, 56, 124, 576, 590, Devlin, Frank, 97–99, 101, 104 609, 611, 822, 823 Dewhurst, Colleen, xxxv, 945, 948–50, 952, Drinkwater, John, 116, 125, 131 953–55, 958–60, 963, 967 Driver, Tom F., 889, 920 Dial, The, 134, 207, 306, 433, 472, 611, 679 Drucker, Rebecca,56 Dickinson, Thomas H., 439 Drums of Oude, The (Strong), 131–32 Dickinson, Weed, 145 Drunkard, The (Smith), 961 Diesel, Leota, 967–68 Dumas, Alexandre, 232–33 Diff’rent, 135–37 Dunbar, William, 107

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Failures, 340–41 compared with Bound East for Cardiff, Fairbank, Janet A., 299 452 Famous Mrs. Fair, The (Forbes), 240–41, compared with Days Without End, 762 244 compared with Dynamo, 638 Fareleigh, Margaret, 21, 24–28 compared with The Emperor Jones, 451, Farrell, James T., xxxiv, 823 453 Farren, George, 217 compared with The First Man, 266 Fashion (Mowatt), 355–56, 360, 379, 415, compared with The Great God Brown, 486, 423, 431 490 Fashionable Dress, 515 compared with The Hairy Ape, 463 Fat, Ira Remsen, 17 compared with Strange Interlude, 563 Father, The (Strindberg), 343–44 production and staging, xxix, 451, 454, Faust (Goethe), 460, 632, 788 457, 463, 464–65, 466–67, 470, 473–74 Faust (Gounod), 452, 456, 641, 784 as realism, 446, 449–51, 457, 459, 461–62, Fergusson, Francis, 722 466, 468 Field, Betty, 895, 897, 899–900, 902–03, 905, writing of, 471–72 908, 910–11, 918 Fowler, Gene, 369 Field, Rowland, 865, 900 Francis, Charles, 157 Finley, George, 363 Francis, Robert, 835–36 Finn, Elfin, 59, 62, 64, 67, 70–71, 74–75, 86, Franken, Rose, 749 88–89, 95 Frazee Theatre (New York), 159 Firkins, O. W., 83, 125, 150, 173 Freda, 403 First Man, The Freedley, George, 808, 835–36 reviews, 247–68 Freedom (Reed), 3 compared with Ah, Wilderness!, 756 Freeman, David, 474 compared with “Anna Christie”, 261, 262 Freeman, Helen, 95, 389, 403 compared with Beyond the Horizon, 262, Freeman, The, 124, 209, 235, 267, 301, 309 268 Freud, Sigmund, 124, 139, 147, 418, 570, compared with The Emperor Jones, 266, 588, 596, 602, 611, 613, 809 267 From Morn to Midnight (Kaiser), 290–91 compared with The Fountain, 266 Frost, Robert, 429 compared with The Hairy Ape, 266, 271, Frye, John, 839 283, 286 Fuller, Rosalinde, 349, 443, 455, 456, 459, compared with The Straw, 262 463 compared with Welded, 343 compared with Where the Cross Is Made, Gabriel, Gilbert W., 324, 393, 409, 448, 474, 266 481, 495, 525, 550, 554–55, 567, 605, reception of, xxvi 611, 615, 658, 732, 739, 765, 789–90 Fisher, Dorothea, 217 Gallup, Donald, 960 Fiske, Minnie, 211–12, 755 Galsworthy, John, 84–85 Fitch, Clyde, xxiv Gardy, Louis, 29, 40, 69 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, x Garland, Robert, 430, 642, 732, 741, 757–58, Flanner, Oscar, 363 767, 789–90, 799 Fog, xxiii Garrick Theatre (New York), xxix Fontanne, Lynn Gassner, John, 891 Chris, 97–101, 103–05 Gates & Morange, 217 Strange Interlude, 557–59, 562, 566, Gaul, George, 352, 635–37 573–74, 578–79, 596, 605, 608 Gazzo, Mike, 881 For the Defense (Rice), 68, 70, 84, 86 Gelb, Barbara, 947, 954 Ford, John, xxviii George Dandin (Moliere),` 351–52, 358, Forrester, Frederick, 759 359–61 Forrester, Ross, 635–37 George, W. L., 325 Forsyth, Robert, 349 Gerstenberg, Alice, 602, 766 Foster, Philip, 689 Getting Gertie’s Garter (Collison and Fountain, The Hopwood), 239 reviews, 443–74 Ghosts (Ibsen), 843 compared with The Ancient Mariner, 453 Gibbs, Wolcott, 814, 878

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Gierow, Karl Ragnar, 958, 960 compared with More Stately Mansions, 959, Gilbert, Ruth, 733, 748, 791, 795, 818, 834 965, 966 Gilder, Rosamond, 832 compared with Strange Interlude, 560, 562, Gillette, Abram, 5, 9 572, 594, 598, 602, 604, 609, 614 Gillette, Don Carle, 458, 495 compared with A Touch of the Poet, 924 Gillette, William, 872 masks used in, 477–80, 482–83, 485–88, Gilliam, Florence, 113–15 490–93, 495–509, 516–17 Gillmore, Margalo production and staging, 479, 493, 496, 498, Marco Millions, 519, 522, 525, 533, 542, 501–03, 505–06, 508 546, 552 Green Goddess, The (film), 154, 170 Straw, The, 217, 219, 221–23, 226, 228, Green, E. Mawby, 835–36 231–33, 239–42, 244 Green, Morris, 443 Gilpin, Charles S., xxv, 113, 115–23, 125, Greene, Lillian, 363, 374 127–33, 137, 153 Greenwich Village Players, 21, 28–29, 61 Girl I Left Behind Me, The (film), 472 Greenwich Village Theatre Glaspell, Susan, xxii, 33–34, 37–42, 84, Beyond the Horizon,75 129–31, 177, 279 Desire Under the Elms, 423–24, 427 Glass Menagerie, The (Williams), 819 Fountain, The, 443 Goat Song (Werfel), 506, 508, 510, 514, 545 Ile, 21, 27 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 600, 632 Straw, The, 217 Gold Greenwood, Jane, 945, 963 reviews, 157–59, 180 Gregory, Lady, xxii compared with Beyond the Horizon, 159, Grey, Katherine 161, 165, 169–70, 172, 176 Gold, 157, 159, 161, 165, 166, 169–71, compared with Diff’rent, 163, 176 175–76, 179 compared with The Emperor Jones, 159, Straw, The, 217, 219, 223–24, 232 161, 163–64, 176 Guare, John, xxxvi compared with The Moon of the Caribbees, Gude, Jack, 269 168 Guild Theatre, 519, 544, 689, 733 compared with The Rope, 168, 178 compared with Where the Cross Is Made, H. J. M., 460 xxvi, 159, 161–66, 168, 177–79 Hackett, Francis, 204 production and staging, xxv Hadden, George, 59, 64, 70, 71 Goncourt, Edmond de, 151–52 Hairy Ape, The Goodman, Edward, 107 reviews, 269–319 Gordon, Grant, 689 compared with All God’s Chillun Got Gorky, Maxim, 80, 149, 195–96, 611, 806, Wings, 381, 382 808, 811–12, 818, 820, 822 compared with “Anna Christie”, 285–86, Gottfried, Martin, 929, 948 289 Gottlieb, Harry, 269 compared with Beyond the Horizon, 273, Gould, Bruce, 533, 655 286 Gourand, Claude, 97–99 compared with Desire Under the Elms, Grafton, Samuel, 835–36 xxviii, 412–13, 415, 419, 427, 430 Grauert, Charlotte, 113 compared with Dynamo, 669 Great Divide, The (Moody), 68, 84, 212 compared with The Emperor Jones, 271, Great God Brown, The 274, 284–85, 290–91, 299–300, 306–07, reviews, 475–517 311–12, 315 compared with Days Without End, 762, compared with The First Man, 266, 271, 770, 772–73, 775 283, 286 compared with Desire Under the Elms, 483, compared with The Fountain, 463 510 compared with The Great God Brown, compared with Dynamo, 650, 670, 675, 682 482 compared with The Fountain, 486, 490 compared with The Iceman Cometh, 812, compared with The Hairy Ape, 482 826 compared with Marco Millions, 549 compared with Marco Millions, 549 compared with The Moon of the Caribbees, compared with The Moon of the Caribbees, 516 299–300

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Hairy Ape, The (cont.) , 927, 931, 933 compared with Mourning Becomes Electra, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, 857, 867, 717 874–75, 882, 885 compared with The Straw, 286 He Who Gets Slapped (Andreyev), 748 compared with Welded, 343, 346–47 Heartbreak House (Shaw), 256 as expressionist drama, 290–91, 307–08, Hedda Gabler (Ibsen), xxii, 510 312–13, 317 Heinemann, Eda, 733 film adaptation of, 828 Helburn, Theresa, 830 mentioned in other reviews, 391, 421, 786 Helen Hayes Theatre (New York), 857, 895, as modernist drama, xxvii 907 production and staging, 271–78, 280–81, Hellman, Lillian, 823 285, 287–88, 291–92, 298, 302, 308, 312 Hemingway, Ernest, x S. S. Glencairn production and, 402–03 Henderson, Grace, 217 Hale, Louise Closser, 59, 62–67, 69–72, 74, Hendricks, John, 689 76, 78–84, 86, 88–89, 93, 95 Henriade (Voltaire), 151 Hall, Henry Marion, 1 Henry Miller Theatre, 759 Hall, Leonard, 554–55, 568 Henry, John, 519 Hallman, William E., 97–99 Hepburn, Katharine, 778 Hamilton, Clayton, xxiii, 15, 90 Herbert, Galway, 269, 298 Hamlet (Shakespeare), xxx, 151, 169, 423–24, Herbert, Victor, 609 547, 610, 626, 823 Hermit and His Messiah, The (Kugelman), 33 Hammond, Percy, 186, 219, 245, 318, 325, Herne, James A., 72, 74 347, 370, 394, 411, 442, 474, 554–55, Hersey, F. W., 634 615, 644, 686–87, 732, 757–58, 768, Herzberg, Max J., 835–36 789–90 Hewes, Henry, 880, 910, 942, 957 Hampden, Walter, 359, 748 Highbrow, The, 199, 261, 283 Hampton, Mary, 97–99, 103–04, 105 Higley, Philip, 527 Hamsun, Knut, 413, 430 Hildebrand, Arthur, 410 Hand of the Potter, The (Dreiser), 56 Hill, Arthur, 945, 948, 950, 952, 954–55, Hanley, John, 181 958, 959, 963, 967 Hanna Theater (Cleveland, Ohio), 837 Hill, I., 247 Hansberry, Lorraine, xxxvi Hill, W. Clay, 49 Hapgood, Hutchins, xxii Hipp, Edward Sothern, 892–93, 925–26, 931 Harding, Lyn, 164 Hobart, George V., 213–14 Hardy, Thomas, 68, 72, 177, 827 Hobe, 874, 925–26, 967–68 Harper’s, 835–36 Hogarth, Leona, 475, 481, 483, 496, 501, 504 Harrigan, William, 475, 479, 483, 490, 494, Hohl, Arthur, 5, 8, 12 501, 503, 514 Holden, Ruth, 733 Harris, Mrs. Sidney B., 157 Holloway, Baliol, 519, 522, 537, 542, 546, Harrison, Hubert H., 132 552 Hart, Charles, 791 Holloway, J. Fred, 157 Hartford Courant, 96, 318 Homer, 824 Hartman Theater (Columbus, OH), 837 Honor of the Bradleys, The, 266 Harvey, John, 945, 950, 963 Hopkins, Arthur Harwood, Harry, 217, 219, 223 “Anna Christie”, 181, 183, 190, 193–95, Hasenclever, Walter, 347 198, 201, 206, 211–12, 214 Hatful of Rain, A (Gazzo), 881 Hairy Ape, The, 269, 277–78 Hauptmann, Gerhardt, 425, 460, 754 mentioned, 451, 543 Hawkins, Lila, 363 Hopwood, Avery, 213–14 Hawkins, William, 835–36 Hornblow, Arthur, 29, 42, 88, 177, 214–15, Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 912 265, 304, 343, 359, 382, 402, 431, 468, Hayes, Helen, 895, 897, 899–904, 908, 513 910–11, 918, 921, 924 Hound & Horn, 730 Hayes, Richard, 887, 916 House of Connelly, The (Green), 703 Haynes, Alice, 217 House of Women, The (Bromfield), 543 Hays, Blanche, 269 Hoving, Greta, 269 Hays, David, 934, 936, 939 Howard, Bronson, 811

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Howard, Sidney, 426, 433, 595 compared with In the Zone,24 Howlett, Stanley, 389, 395, 399 compared with The Rope, 40, 41 Hudson Review, 924 dialogue, 33 Hughes, Arthur, 689 directing of, 28–29 Hughie madness as theme, 26–27 reviews, 927–43 mentioned in other reviews, 70, 255 as autobiography, 931, 933, 938 premiere production of, xxiii “By Way of Obit” series, xxxiii, 932 Illustrated News,78 compared with The Iceman Cometh, 930, Imitation (Kempis), 510 931, 932, 933, 935, 937, 938, 943 In the Shadow of the Glen (Synge), 150 compared with Long Day’s Journey Into In the Zone Night, 933, 938, 941, 942 reviews, 5–17 compared with More Stately Mansions, 961 compared with Beyond the Horizon,92 production and staging, x, 932–33, 934, 939 compared with Ile,24 Huston, Walter compared with The Rope, 35, 37, 40–41 Desire Under the Elms, 405, 408–10, 412, dialogue, 33 415, 418, 420, 423, 425, 428, 431–32 mentioned in other reviews, 19–20, 66, 70 Fountain, The, 443, 445, 450–53, 456–59, premiere production of, xxiii 461, 464–65, 470, 474 S. S. Glencairn production, 391, 396, 400, Hutchinson, Josephine, 269 402–03 Hutchison, Eleanor, 269 Independent and Weekly Review, The, 208, Huysmans, J. K., 766 235 Hwang, David Henry, xxxvi Independent, The, 96, 134, 180, 358, 442, 510 Hyde, James, 617, 629, 631 Industrial Solidarity, 318 Hylan, John Francis, 370, 372, 377–78 Inglis, Alexander, 626 Irene (Montgomery, McCarthy, and Tierny), Ibee, 337, 757–58, 789–90, 835–36 193–94 Ibsen, Henrik, xxi, 89, 144, 199, 223, 260, Isaacs, Edith J. R., 755, 786 268, 347, 360, 460, 501, 682, 697, 739, Ivanov (Chekhov), 922, 925 740, 747, 813, 822, 843 Ivins, Perry, 405, 443, 456 Iceman Cometh, The reviews, 791–836 James, Henry (critic), 619 compared with “Anna Christie”, 814 James, Henry (writer), 724, 914 compared with Days Without End, 802, 827 James, Patterson, 140, 174, 233, 268 compared with Desire Under the Elms, 802 James, William, 124, 506 compared with The Emperor Jones, 826 Jane Clegg (Irvine), 89 compared with The Hairy Ape, 812, 826 Janes, Teddy, 475 compared with Hughie, 930–33, 935, Jeffery, Mary, 59, 64, 66–67, 70–71, 81, 84 937–38, 943 Jenkins, Kathleen, xxv compared with Long Day’s Journey Into Jenseits (Hasenclever), 347 Night, 891 Jest, The (Benelli), 451–52 compared with A Moon for the John Ferguson (Ervine), 66, 68, 77, 84, 91 Misbegotten, 846, 850 John Golden Theatre (New York), 557–59 compared with More Stately Mansions, 961 Johns, Mary, 389 compared with Mourning Becomes Electra, Jolo, 110, 214–15 802, 809, 815 Jonathan Makes a Wish (Walker), 84 compared with S. S. Glencairn, 793 Jones, A. L., 443 compared with Strange Interlude, 826 Jones, Ellsworth, 475 compared with A Touch of the Poet, 913, Jones, Johnny, 850 916–17, 919–20, 924 Jones, Paul, 363, 475 production and staging, xxxiii, 804, 808, Jones, Philip, 443 812–14, 817, 819, 833–34 Jones, Robert Edmond revival productions of, xxxv, 859, 862, Ah, Wilderness!, 739, 751 869–70, 875–76, 884, 890 All God’s Chillun Got Wings, 363 Ile Ancient Mariner, The, 349, 351 reviews, 21–29 “Anna Christie”, 181, 185, 190, 196, 198, compared with Bound East for Cardiff,27 202–03, 211–12

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Jones, Robert Edmond (cont.) Kennedy, Charles O’Brien, 135–37, 146 Desire Under the Elms, 405, 410, 412–13, Kennedy, Charles Rann, 611 415, 419–24, 427, 431–32 Kent, Edgar, 635–37 Fountain, The, 443, 445, 450, 451, 454, Kenton, Edna, xxiii 457, 463–67, 470, 473–74 Kerr, Walter, 866, 932, 954 Great God Brown, The, 475, 479, 508 Kerrigan, J. M., 837, 843–45, 847–49 Hairy Ape, The, 269, 271–72, 274–75, Khayyam, Omar, 744–45, 747 277–78, 280–81, 285, 287–88, 291–92, Kidder, Hugh, 475 302, 308, 312 King Lear (Shakespeare), 126 Iceman Cometh, The, 791, 793, 802, 807, Kingsford, Walter, 389, 399 808, 813, 820, 831, 833 Kipling, Rudyard, 146, 195, 740 Moon for the Misbegotten, A, 837, 842, Kirk, Hazel, 839 843, 845 Kirkland, Jack, 843 Mourning Becomes Electra, 689, 708, 712, Kirstein, Lincoln, 730 716, 725, 726 Kissel, Bud, 839, 840 as Provincetown Player, xxii Klauber, Adolph, 113, 128–29, 131, 144–48 Touch of the Poet, A, 903 Klaw Theatre (New York), xxix Welded, 321 Klein, Charles, 305, 811 Jones, Starr, 475 Krafft-Ebing, Richard Freiherr von, 418 Jones, Tupper, 475 Krainis, Abraham, 389 Jonson, Ben, 847 Kramer, Theodore, 171 Jordan, Elizabeth, 596, 721, 753 Kroll, Jack, 967–68 Jory, Victor, 617, 628 Kronenberger, Louis, 809, 892–93, 925–26 Journal of Commerce, 64, 180, 183, 483, 651 Kruger, Otto, 217, 219, 221–24, 226–28, Journal of Commerce and Commercial 232–33, 239–42, 244 Bulletin, 27, 362, 442, 554–55, 615, 732, Krutch, Joseph Wood, 134, 141, 420, 497, 757–58, 789–90, 835–36, 892–93, 538, 584, 615, 663, 718, 748, 778, 821, 925–26 920 Joy, Nicholas, 791, 794, 795, 801, 814, 834 Kugelman, F. B., 33 Joyce, James, 578, 583, 607, 724, 778 Kushner, Tony, xxxiv, xxxvi Juarez and Maximilian (Werfel), 547 Judge, 403, 425, 543, 672, 720 Lait, Jack, 170, 654 Jung, Carl, 596 Lake, The (Massingham and MacDonald), 778 Juno and the Paycock (O’Casey), 843, 881 Lamont, Jennie, 217, 219, 223 Lampert, Charles Ellis, 363 K. W., 686–87 Langner, Lawrence, 119, 853 Kafka, Franz, 933 Lardner, John, 908 Kahn, Otto, 562 Larimore, Earl, 772 Kaiser, Georg, 290–91 Larimore, Earle Kalonyme, Louis, 469, 507 Days Without End, 759, 761, 764, 772, Kane, Whitford, 31–42 777, 781, 785, 787 Katzka-Berne Productions, 927 Mourning Becomes Electra, 689, 698, 715, Kaufman, George S., 456, 823 729 Kaufman, S. Jay, 134, 155, 171, 200, 214–15, Strange Interlude, 557–59, 562, 574, 229 578–79, 584 Keane, Doris, xxvii, 321, 325–27, 332–35, Lawrence, Duryea, 624 338, 340–46 Lawrence, George A., 97–99, 104 Kehoe M. E., 634 Lawson, John Howard, 663 Keith, Robert, 475, 479, 481, 494, 496–502, Lazarus Laughed 514 reviews, 617–35 Kelley, Benjamin, 349 compared with Days Without End, 775 Kelley, Robert, 95 compared with Desire Under the Elms, 633 Kelly, George, 754 compared with Strange Interlude, 604 Kemp, Harry, xxii, 1 mentioned in other reviews, 550, 551, 601 Kemper, Charles Garland, 49 production and staging, x, xii, xxix, 621, Kempis, Thomas a,` 510 632–33 Kendall, Seth, 475 Leiber, Fritz, 457

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Leigh, Philip, 519, 557–59, 580, 589 Long Voyage Home, The Leland, Gordon M., 537, 578 reviews, 15–21 Lerner, Max, 886, 911 film adaptation of, xxviii Levine, Joseph, 927 premiere production of, xxiii Lewis, Emory, 943 as realism, 20 Lewis, Sinclair, 381, 508, 523, 532–33, S. S. Glencairn production, 391, 393–94, 535–37, 541, 543, 545, 548, 552, 609, 396, 400, 402–03 611, 686, 825 Look Back in Anger (Osborne), 922 Lewis, Theophilus, 913, 967–68 Loraine, Robert, 759, 772–73, 777, 782, 785, Lewisohn, Ludwig, 84, 132, 176, 286, 339, 788 383 Lord, Pauline, 181, 183, 185–87, 189–98, Life, 42, 82, 172, 203, 290, 341, 384, 426, 202–03, 207, 209–12 464, 502–03, 542, 589, 670, 732, Lorraine, Emily, 689 835–36, 892–93 Los Angeles Times, 622, 631, 633 Life of Man (Andreyev), 256 Lost Weekend, The (Jackson), 812 Light, James Loti, Pierre, 105 All God’s Chillun Got Wings, 363, 368, Lounger, The, 106 371, 374–75, 377 Love City, The (Bachwitz), 514 Ancient Mariner, The, 349, 351–52, 354, Lovett, Robert Morss, 423 358–59 Lower Depths, The (Gorky), 149, 195–96, Diff’rent, 135–37, 139, 146, 148, 150 806, 808, 811–12, 818, 820, 822 Hairy Ape, The, 269 Lunt, Alfred S. S. Glencairn, 389, 400, 402 Marco Millions, 519, 522, 525, 529, 532, Where the Cross Is Made,45 536, 539, 542, 546, 552 Liliom (Molnar),´ 243, 291–92, 300–01 mentioned, 359 Lincoln [NE] States Journal, 318 Lyons, Phil, 49 Lincoln, Eugene, 5, 8–9, 135–37, 146 Lincoln, Joseph C., 17, 95 M. B. D., 408 Lindsay, Lex, 837 M. C. H., 535 Link, The (Strindberg), 339–40 M. L. A., 109 Linville, Lawrence, 945, 958, 963 M. W., 461 Literary Digest, 757–58 Macaulay, Joseph, 24–28 Littell, Robert, 528, 554–55, 569, 645, 680, Macbeth (Shakespeare), 277, 547, 582, 827 686–87 MacDougal, Alice, 17 Liveright, O. K., 31–33, 45, 49, 51 Macgowan, Kenneth (as producer), 321, 345, Lockhart, Gene, 733, 751, 757 349, 363, 405 Lockridge, Richard, 646, 698, 732, 742, Fountain, The, 443 757–58, 769, 789–90 Great God Brown, The, 475 London, Jack, 280 Macgowan, Kenneth (as reviewer), xi, xxiii, Long Day’s Journey Into Night 55, 72, 89, 118, 129, 138, 152, 155, 163, reviews, 857–93 187, 211–12, 220, 240–41, 266, 268, as autobiography, xxxiii, 859, 862–63, 271, 290, 307, 317–18, 345, 347, 360, 865–66, 868–69, 872, 875, 877, 880, 885 517, 677 compared with Desire Under the Elms, Machet, Sidney, 389, 395 859 MacIssac, Fred, 442 compared with Hughie, 933, 938, 941, 942 Mack, Arthur, 405 compared with The Iceman Cometh, 891 Mack, James C., 97–99, 181, 187, 212 compared with More Stately Mansions, Mack, Willard, 157, 159–64, 166–68, 961–63 170–73, 175–76, 179, 286 compared with Mourning Becomes Electra, Mackaye, Percy, 460 859 MacKellar, Helen, 59, 62, 64–67, 69–72, compared with A Touch of the Poet, 906, 74–76, 78–82, 84–86, 88–89 914, 916–17, 919–20 Macollum, Barry, 945 O’Neill critical legacy and, xx Macy, Sidney, 93 production and staging, x, xxxv, 876–78, Maeterlinck, Maurice, 627, 682 882, 888–89 Magical City, The (Akins), 254 Stockholm production, x Mahin, John, 475

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Maid In The Ozarks (Parrish), 811 Matthias, Rita, 349 Malraux, Andre,´ 831 Maupassant, Guy de, 171 Mamet, David, xxxvi Maurey, Max, 305 Mamoulian, Rouben, 519, 522, 524, 531, Maxwell, Perriton, 606, 685 546, 552 McAteer, Alan [M. A.], 107, 109, 113, Man Who Never Died, The (Webster), 464 135–37, 146 Mann, Adrian, 262, 318 McCarten, John, 943 Mann, Theodore, 857, 927 McCarthy, Mary, xxxiv, 823, 922 Mannes, Marya, 882, 916 McClain, John, 867, 900, 933 Mansfield, Katherine, 429 McClelland, Donald, 733 Mantle, Burns, 9, 23, 36, 70, 81, 118, 164, McCollum, H. H., 519 188, 245, 272, 327, 347, 352, 371, 416, McDermott, William F., 847, 855 491, 554–55, 615, 686–87, 732, 743, McElliott, Mabel,78 757–58, 772, 789–90 McFee, William, 318–19 March, Fredric, 857, 859, 861, 863, 866, 868, McGavran, Mary V., 841 870–73, 876, 878, 881, 884, 886, 889 McGee, Harold, 269, 349, 389 Marcin, Max, 425, 452 McGranary, Al, 791 Marco Millions McKinnell, Norman, 164 reviews, 519–55 McLaughlin, Russell, 851 compared with All God’s Chillun Got McNaught’s Monthly, 429, 506 Wings, 534 Me (Myers), 487 compared with Desire Under the Elms, 549 Megrue, Roi Cooper, 213–14 compared with The Emperor Jones, 549, Mei Lan-fang, 716 550 Meighan, James, 349, 359, 363, 389 compared with The Great God Brown, 549 Meisner, Sanford, 519 compared with The Hairy Ape, 549 Meltzer, Charles Henry, 27 compared with Strange Interlude, 550, 580, Meltzer, Harold, 21, 24–25 609 Men in White (Kingsley), 743 compared with The Straw, 549 Mencken, H. L., 528, 531 mentioned in other reviews, 578 Menefee, Richard, 617 production and staging, xxix, 522, 526–27, Mephistopheles, 437, 784, 788 531, 536, 547, 552 Merchants of Glory (Pagnol), 464 Marion, George Metcalfe, 335, 357, 379, 418, 455, 486 “Anna Christie”, 183, 185–87, 189–90, Metcalfe, J. S.,82 194–98, 202–03, 211–12 Meyer, Josephine A., 31–42 Gold, 157, 159, 161, 163–64, 166, 169, Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review, 892–93 171–72, 179, 181 Middletown [OH] Journal, 839 Markham, Edwin, 281 Mielziner, Jo, 557–59, 580, 589 Markham, Marcella, 791, 795 Milay, Norma, 405 Marquis, Marjorie, 733 Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 129–31 Marr, Joe, 791 Miller, Arthur, xxxvi, 881, 929 Marriott, John, 791, 945 Miller, Gilbert, 543 Marrow, Macklin, 405 Miller, Perry, 952 Marsh, Adrian, 475 Millet, Jean-Franc¸ois, 281 Marsh, Leo A., 63, 198, 252, 484, 686–87 Millington, Norris, 217 Marshall, Armina, 853 Mima (Belasco), 654 Marshall, E. G., 791, 803, 814 Miracle, The (Reinhardt), 355, 623 Martin Beck Theatre (New York), 635–37, Mitchell, Thomas, 49 791, 796 Mitzel, Max, 59, 62, 64–67, 70, 74, 79, 80, Martin,C.I.,113 88–89 Martin, Elliot, 945 Mixed Marriage (Ervine), 89–90 Martin, James, 113, 363, 374 Moeller, Philip Martin, Linton, 103 Ah, Wilderness!, 749 Masefield, John, 243 Days Without End, 759, 763–64, 785 Masters, Edgar Lee, 414, 435 Dynamo, 635–37, 654 Matchet, Sidney, 403 Mourning Becomes Electra, 689, 712, 716, Matinata (Langner), 119 724, 728, 729

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Strange Interlude, 557–59, 570, 574, 578, Morgan, Frederick, 834 580, 589, 599, 613, 614–15 Morgan, Kate, 31–33, 35–42 Moise, Nina, 17, 31–33 Morley, Christopher, 611 Moliere,` 351–52, 358–61 Morosco Theatre, 59, 63, 74–75, 86–87 Molnar,´ Ferenc, 243, 291–92, 300–01, 788 Morris, Mary, 405, 408–10, 412, 415, 418, Monte Cristo (Fechter), 67, 100, 102–04, 671, 420, 423, 428, 431–32, 434 706 Morrow, Macklin, 443 Monterey, Carlotta, xii, xxxi, xxxv, 269, 874, Morrow, Margaret, 617 876, 886, 890, 939 Moscow Art Theatre, 465, 467 Moon for the Misbegotten, A Moses, Montrose J., 134, 681 reviews, 837–55 Moss, Arthur Harold, 109 as autobiography, xxxiii Motherwell, Hiram, 728, 783 compared with “Anna Christie”, 843 Motley, 857 compared with Desire Under the Elms, 852 Mourning Becomes Electra compared with The Iceman Cometh, 846, reviews, 689–732 850 compared with Ah, Wilderness!, 746, 751 compared with More Stately Mansions, 966 compared with Days Without End, 776 compared with A Touch of the Poet, 906 compared with Desire Under the Elms, 723, production and staging, x, 839, 841–42, 854 727 revival productions of, xxxv compared with Diff’rent, 704 Moon of the Caribbees, The compared with The Emperor Jones, 717 reviews, 49–51 compared with The Hairy Ape, 717 compared with Beyond the Horizon,90 compared with The Iceman Cometh, 802, compared with Gold, 168 809, 815 compared with The Great God Brown, compared with Long Day’s Journey Into 516 Night, 859 compared with The Hairy Ape, 299–300 compared with More Stately Mansions, 960 mentioned in other reviews, 87 compared with Strange Interlude, 691–93, premiere production of, xxiii 697, 704, 717 S. S. Glencairn production, 391–93, 396, production and staging, xxxi, 693, 696, 726 400, 402–03 trilogy structure, 691–92, 697–98, 722, 730 Moon of the Caribbees, The (volume of Mower, Margaret, 247, 251–54, 258, 260–63, collected plays), 92 265–66 Moore, Pauline, 443, 459 Moyles, Dan, 97–99, 104 More Stately Mansions Mr. Pitt (Gale), 431 reviews, 945–67 Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Shaw), xxvi compared with The Great God Brown, 959, Murdock, Kermit, 945 965, 966 Murray, T. C., xxii compared with Hughie, 961 Musser, Tharon, 857, 875, 882 compared with The Iceman Cometh, 961 Myers, Henry, 487 compared with Long Day’s Journey Into Myrck, Malvin, 363 Night, 961, 962, 963 compared with A Moon for the Nadel, Norman, 934 Misbegotten, 966 Nagle, Allen, 405 compared with Mourning Becomes Electra, Nathan, George Jean, xi, xii, xx, xxvi, xxviii, 960 xxx, xxxiv, 28, 87, 90–91, 142, 213, 241, compared with Strange Interlude, 959, 961, 264–65, 293, 304, 343, 361, 403, 425, 965, 966 429, 432, 471, 514, 543, 608, 642, 666, compared with A Touch of the Poet, 951, 672, 676, 720, 753, 788, 810, 826, 830, 962 868 decline-of-America drama cycle, 957, 958, Nation, The, 84, 132, 176, 286, 339, 383, 962, 963, 966 420, 497, 538, 584, 663, 718, 748, 778, Los Angeles production, x 821, 877, 914, 943, 958 production and staging, x, 947, 949, 952, National Review, 963 954, 958–59, 963, 967 Nazimova, Alla, 81, 689, 699, 703, 706, 708, Swedish production, 958, 960 713, 715, 729 Morehouse, Ward, 801, 830 Negro World, The, 132

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Newsweek, 835–36, 892–93, 925–26, 943, Pasadena Evening Post, 619, 620 967–68 Pasadena Star-News, 626 News-Week, 757–58, 789–90 Pedi, Tom, 791, 794–95, 799, 801, 803, Niblo, Fred, Jr., 442 834 Nichols, Anne, 456 Peet, Rogers, 819 Nichols, Dudley, xxviii, xxxiii, 571 Pegler, Westbrook, 835–36 Nietzsche, Friedrich, xxix, 591, 632 Pelly, Farrell, 895 Night Lodging (Gorky), 80 Pendleton, Eloise, 405 Nolan, Dorothea, 389, 405 Peters, Rollo, 5 Nordfeldt, B. J. O., 1 Phelan, Kappo, 820 North, Sterling, 835–36 Philadelphia Bulletin, 442, 686–87 Norton, Elliot, 802, 843 Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, 102 Philadelphia Evening Ledger, 100 O’Brien, Geraldine, 157 Philadelphia Inquirer, 101 Oakland [CA] Tribune, 805 Philadelphia North American, 103 O’Brien, Geraldine, 159, 164–65, 167, 169, Philadelphia Press, 101, 106 171–72, 175–76, 179 Philadelphia Public Ledger, 104, 106 O’Brien, Nora, 217 Philadelphia Record, 99, 106 O’Casey, Sean,´ 810, 843, 881 Physioc, Joseph, 157 Odets, Clifford, 823 Picasso, Pablo, 831 O’Donnelly, J. Joseph, 837 Pichel, Irving, 617, 620, 623–24, 627, 631 Oenslager, Donald, 405 Pinch, Esther, 269 Ohio State Journal [Columbus], 315, 841 Pinero, Arthur Wing, 583 Oliver, Edith, 953 Pinero,˜ Miguel, 347 O’Loghlen, Clement, 269, 363, 389 Pinto, Effingham, 31–33, 35–42 Omaha [NE] Bee, 316 Pittsburgh Leader, 81, 318–19 O’Neill, Alma, 405 Plato, 782 O’Neill, Henry Playboy of the Western World (Synge), Ancient Mariner, The, 349 195–96, 754–55 Fountain, The, 443 Playgoer, The, 12, 166, 189, 221, 253 Hairy Ape, The, 269, 278–81, 287–88, 295, Playwrights’ Theatre (New York) 298 Bound East for Cardiff, xxiii, 1 O’Neill, James, xxi, 8, 9, 12, 14–15, 25–26, Diff’rent, 135–37, 138 56, 62, 67, 82, 100, 102–04, 706, Dreamy Kid, The,53 861–62, 960 Emperor Jones, The, 113, 117, 119, Oppenheimer, George, 892–93, 925–26, 943 120–21, 125, 129–31 Oresteia (Aeschylus), xxxi, 695, 730, 914 Exorcism, 107 Ormonde, Viola Cecil, 217 Long Voyage Home, The,17 Osborn, E. W., 328, 373, 417, 517, 529, 648 Moon of the Caribbees, The,49 Osborne, John, 923 Rope, The, 31–33 Osser, Herman, 113 Where the Cross Is Made,45 Othello (Shakespeare), 386 Plymouth Theatre (New York), xii, 269, Our American Cousin (Taylor), 961 297 Outlook and Independent, The, 662, 732 PM [New York, NY], 809 Outlook, The, 134, 516, 592 Poe, Edgar Allan, 122, 168–69, 305 Overtones (Gerstenberg), 490, 581, 602, 766 Pollock, Arthur, 75, 166, 191, 214–15, 245, 281, 318–19, 329, 347, 358, 374, 387, P. F. R., 115, 137 396, 450, 487, 530, 554–55, 573, 615, Packard, Frederick C., Jr., 475 686–87, 732, 757–58, 770, 803, 835–36 Parker, H. T., 311, 362, 498, 551, 686–87, Porgy (D. Heyward and D. Heyward), 522, 732 546 Parker, Robert Allerton, 206, 208, 235 Portman, Eric, 895, 897, 899–903, 905–06, Parrish, Lew, 1 908, 911, 915, 918 Partisan Review, 823, 922 Porto-Riche, Georges de, 343–44 Pasadena Community Players, 617, 631 Post, William, Jr., 733 Pasadena Community Playhouse, xxix, 617, Power of Darkness, The (Tolstoy), 82 622, 625 Powers, Eugene, 247, 252

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compared with Gold, 168, 178 Scott, Howard, 49 compared with Ile, 40–41 Second Nighter, The,28 compared with In the Zone, 35, 37, 40–41 Selden, Samuel, 389 compared with Salome (Wilde), 37 Seldes, Gilbert, 86, 207, 306, 318, 433, 472, premiere production of, xxiii 611 Ross, Katherine, 857, 863, 867–68, 871 Seligmann, Herbert J., 615 Ross, Richard, 217 Sellers, Clifford, 475 Rostetter, Alice, 135–37 Selwin, Arch, 321 Rothschild, H. L., 349 Selwyn Theatre (New York) Royale Theatre (New York), 927 Diff’rent, xxv, 135–37, 143–47 Royle, Selena, 759, 768, 772–73, 777, 785–89 Emperor Jones, The, 113, 127–31, 137–38 Ruhl, Arthur, 590, 658, 702 Selwyn, Edgar, 321, 543 Runyon, F. Graham, 620 Servant in the House, The (Kennedy), 804 Rush, 147, 704 Servitude, xxvi Sewanee Review, 834 S. M. W., 615 Shadow of the Glen, The (Synge), 195–96 S. S. Glencairn Shakespeare, William, xxx, 151, 169, 305, reviews, 389–403 583, 600, 610, 653, 824, 847 Bound East for Cardiff production, 391, Shand, John, 69 400–03 Shanewise, Lenore, 617 compared with Desire Under the Elms, 419, Shannon, Frank, 181, 183, 185, 187, 189, 427 190, 194–98, 203, 211–12 compared with The Iceman Cometh, 793 Shavings (Lincoln), 95 In the Zone production, 391, 396, 400, Shaw, George Bernard, xxi, xxvi, 250, 256, 402–03 279, 280, 299, 381, 460, 529, 537, 568, Long Voyage Home production, The, 391, 611, 735, 739–40, 745, 747, 810, 814, 393–94, 396, 400, 402–03 820, 965 mentioned in other reviews, 421 Shay, Frank, 1 Moon of the Caribbees production, The, Sheed, Wilfrid, 940 391, 393, 396, 400, 402–03 Sheldon, Edward, 129–31 original and revival productions, 392–93, Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 146, 745 395–99, 401 Shepard, Sam, xxxvi production and staging, xxviii Sherwin, Louis, 13, 24, 40 set design, 402 Sherwood, Robert E., 537, 540, 788 S. S. Tenacity (Vidrac), 249 Shields, Arthur, 837, 842, 850 Saint Jean (Shaw), 529 Shipley, Joseph T., 534, 581, 656, 686–87, Saint, The (Young), 428 817, 925–26 Saint-Gaudens, Homer, 59, 78, 86, 157 Shipman, Samuel, 75, 342, 435 Salome (Wilde), 34, 37–39, 41–42 Shoemaker, Anne, 475, 496, 502 Salt Lake Tribune, 634 Shopenhauer, Arthur, 591 Salvation Nell (Sheldon), 187, 211–12 Shore Acres (Herne), 72 Samson and Delilah (Lange), 129, 341–42 Shreve, Lucy, 269, 405 San Francisco Chronicle, xxix, 625 Shute, James, 349, 363 Sanford, Erskine, 689, 715 Silence (Marcin), 425 Sargent, Margherita, 247, 252 Silver Cord, The (Howard), 585, 595 Saroyan, William, 806, 815, 822, 823 Simmelkjaer, Harold, 53, 55 Sartre, Jean-Paul, 831 Simon, John, 962 Saturday Review, 880, 910, 942, 957 Simonson, Lee Saturday Review of Literature, 544, 580, Days Without End, 759, 764, 771, 781, 812 783 Sayler, Oliver M., 124, 148, 544, 580 Dynamo, 635–37, 639 Schallert, Edwin, 622 Marco Millions, 519, 521, 527, 529, 531, Schnitzler, Arthur, 23–24, 27, 568, 788 539, 542, 545–46, 552 Schrade, Max L., 97–99 Sinclair, Archie, 389 Schubert, Franz, 610 Single, E. A., 835–36 Schwartz, Frank, 113 Sinnot, James F., 347 Schweid, Mark, 519 Sisk, 400, 457, 492

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Stuart, Isabel, 247 Three Faces East (Kelly), 105 Stuart, William, 1, 49 Three Sisters, The (Chekhov), 591 Sun and New York Herald, The, 62, 76 Throckmorton, Cleon Suppe, Franz von, 608 All God’s Chillun Got Wings, 363 Survey, The, 440, 517 Diff’rent, 135–37 Swinburne, Algernon, 739, 740, 744–45, 747, Emperor Jones, The, 113, 128, 131–32 879 Hairy Ape, The, 269, 271–72, 274–75, Swope, Margaret, 759 277–78, 280–81, 285, 287–88, 291–92, Synge, John Millington, xxii, 80, 105, 150, 302, 308, 312 195–96, 211, 413, 430, 754 S. S. Glencairn, 389, 402 Tilden, Milano, 475 “Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed, A” Time, 403, 442, 634, 732, 757–58, 855, drama cycle, xxxii, 905, 962, 964, 966 892–93, 925–26, 943 Tallmer, Jerry, 905, 916 Time of Your Life, The (Saroyan), 806, 812, Tamamoto, T., 157 822 Tarkington, Booth, 749, 752 Tisdale, H. B., 31–33, 135–37 Taubman, Howard, 935 Tobacco Road (Kirkland), 843, 846, 848, 850, Taylor, G. O., 181 854 Taylor, Harvey, 852 Tobias, George, 269 Taylor, John, 349, 363, 405, 443 Tolstoy, Leo, 82, 824 Taylor, Noel, 927, 934 Too Many Cooks (Craven), 414 Tempest, The (Shakespeare), 813 Torrence, Ridgely, 129–31 Thaıs¨ (France), 656 Torres, H. Z., 155, 180, 191, 256, 330, Theatre Arts, 832, 884, 919 554–55 Theatre Arts Magazine, 89, 129, 155, 211, Touch of the Poet, A 240, 317, 347 reviews, 895–926 Theatre Arts Monthly, 360, 430, 466, 505, compared with The Great God Brown, 924 545, 601, 680, 755, 786 compared with The Iceman Cometh, 913, Theatre Guild Acting Company 916–17, 919–20, 924 Ah, Wilderness!, 739, 741, 743 compared with Long Day’s Journey Into Days Without End, 759, 766, 777, 780, Night, 906, 914, 916, 917, 919–20 783, 785, 789 compared with More Stately Mansions, 951, Dynamo, 635–38, 662, 686 962 Iceman Cometh, The, 791, 796, 817 compared with Strange Interlude, 924 Marco Millions, xxix, 519, 521, 540–44, production and staging, x, 902, 903 547, 552 Stockholm production, x Moon for the Misbegotten, A, 837, 851, “A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed” 853–54 drama cycle, xxxii, 905, 962, 964, 966 Mourning Becomes Electra, 689, 712, Town & Country, 29, 293, 362, 422, 465, 715–16 504, 582, 728, 829 Strange Interlude, xxix, 557–59, 560, 563, Town Topics, 79, 199, 228, 261, 283 568, 573–75, 581 Towse, J. Ranken, 25, 65, 167, 192, 224, 257, Theatre Guild Magazine, 728 275, 331 Theatre Magazine, xxiii, 29, 42, 88, 177, Tragedy of Nan, The (Masefield), 243 214–15, 239, 265, 268, 304, 343, 359, Traubel, Horace, 164 382, 402, 431, 468, 513, 606, 634, 685 Travers, Henry, 519 Theatre World, 835–36 Trifles (Glaspell), 3 They Knew What They Wanted (Howard), Truckline Cafe´ (Anderson), 811 426, 433 True, Mary, 405 “Thinker, The” (Rodin sculpture), 277, 279, Turner, Max, 617 280, 290 Twain, Mark, 537 Thirst (O’Neill), xxii Tweddell, Frank, 791, 801 Thirty-Ninth Street Theatre (New York), 321 Tyler, George C., 56, 62, 87, 97–99, 201, 214, This Year of Grace (Coward), 643 217, 231 Thomas, Augustus, 75, 213–14, 811 Thomas, Lesley, 363 Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Aiken), 456 Thompson, Iden, 113, 135–37 Uncle Vanya (Chekhov), 906

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Upjohn, Dorothy, 31–33 Welch, Mary, 837, 843, 845, 847–49, 853, Urmy, Ralph, 617 854 Welded Vail, Lawrence, 107, 113 reviews, 321–47 Van Dekker, Albert, 519 Baltimore production, x Van Dycke, Thomas, 574 compared with All God’s Chillun Got Van Rooten, Luis, 895 Wings, 376–77, 385 Vanderbilt Theatre (New York), 181, 193–94 compared with “Anna Christie”, 343, Vanity Fair, 94, 154, 210, 238, 268, 290, 434, 346–47 474, 550, 605, 615, 753, 788 compared with Days Without End, 788 Variety, 110, 131, 147, 170, 214–15, 337, compared with Desire Under the Elms, 430 400, 442, 457, 492, 554–55, 654, 704, compared with Dynamo, 677 757–58, 789–90, 835–36, 874, 925–26, compared with The Emperor Jones, 335, 967–68 343 Veda, Louis, 519 compared with The First Man, 343 Verge, The (Glaspell), 279 compared with The Hairy Ape, 343, 346–47 Vidal, Gore, 914 production and staging, xxvii Village Voice, The, 905, 952 as realism, 331–32, 338–39, 343 Villager, The, 967–68 Well of the Saints, The (Synge), 150 Vogue, xi, xxiii, 15, 43, 90, 152, 178, 212, Wellman, Rita, 728 241, 266, 307, 345, 473, 511, 548, 613, Wells, H. G., 255 673, 892–93, 967–68 Wells, Maurice, 617 Voltaire, 151 Welsh, Robert Gilbert, 67, 332, 354, 375 Vonnegut, Marjorie, 247, 251–52, 254 Wenclawska, Ruza, 405 Vonnegut, Walter, Jr., 733 Wenger, John, 21, 24 Vorse, Mary Heaton, xxii Werfel, Franz, 506, 508, 510, 514, 545 Vreeland, Frank, 353, 451, 488 Wesselhoeft, Eleanor, 475, 496 West, Anthony, 967–68 Wagner, Richard, 594 West, Harold, 269, 278–79, 281, 287–88, Walker, Eugene, 213–14 295 Walker, Stuart, 84, 352 Westley, Ethel, 557–59, 580 Wall Street Journal, 335, 357, 379, 418, 455, Westley, Helen, 557–59, 562, 578, 635–37 486, 533, 554–55, 655, 700, 745, 774, Westley, John, 217 798, 872, 925–26, 943, 967–68 Wetzsteon, Ross, 952 Walter, Eugene, 123 Wharf Theatre (Provincetown), xxii Walters, Charles, 557–59, 580 What Every Woman Knows (Barrie), 69 Ward, Jimmy, 363 What Price Glory? (Stallings and Anderson), Warren, Dorothy, 617 395, 398 Warren, George C., xxix, 621, 625 Where the Cross Is Made Washington [DC] Post, 318, 835–36 reviews, 45–48 Washington [DC] Sunday Star, 835–36 as Broadway precursor, 62 Washington Square Players compared with The First Man, 266 In the Zone, xxiv, 5, 7, 9, 11–13 compared with Gold, xxvi, 159, 161–66, O’Neill association with, 90, 110 168, 177–79 Rope, The, xii, 31–33, 38–40, 42 premiere production of, xxiii success of, 61, 67–68 Whipple, Leon, 440 Theatre Guild as successor of, xxix, 120 White, Owen, 113 Wasserstein, Wendy, xxxvi Whitehead, Robert, 895 Watts, Richard, Jr., xx, 489, 777, 806, Whithorne, Emerson, 519 835–36, 869, 892–93, 901, 925–26, 937, Whittaker, Herbert, 925–26 950, 967–68 Whittaker, James, 169, 201, 232, 263, 284, Wayne, John, xxviii 333, 355, 902 Weales, Gerald, 960 Whyte, Gordon, 122, 338, 362, 401, 420 Weber and Fields Broadway Music Hall, Wilbur, Crane, 443, 459 361 Wild Duck, The (Ibsen), 570, 813, 822 Wedekind, Frank, 265 Wilde, Oscar, 34, 739, 744–45, 747, 798–99, Weekly Review, The, 83, 125, 150, 173 804, 879

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Wilenchick, Clement, 349 Woollcott, Alexander, xxiv, xxvi, 56, 67, 96, Williams, John D. 110, 120, 129, 137, 155, 193, 214–15, Beyond the Horizon, xxiv, 59, 62, 66, 68, 225, 258, 277, 318, 334, 347, 355, 376, 71, 78, 80, 85–86, 88, 90–91, 93 397, 413, 434, 453, 490, 531, 575, 615 Gold, 159, 160, 163, 165, 174 Wyatt, Euphemia Van Rensselaer, 403, 436, Williams, Rhys, 837, 853, 854 615, 683, 725, 755, 782, 835–36, Williams, Tennessee, xxxvi, 881, 915 892–93, 925–26 Wilson, August, xxxvi Wyler, Michael, 791 Wilson, Dore, 617 Wynn, Evelyn, 363 Wilson, Edmund, 381 Wynne, John, 733 Wilson, Frank, 363, 374, 382 Wilson, Samuel T., 844 Yeats, William Butler, xxii Wilson, Virginia, 363 Yellow Jacket, The (Hazelton and Benrimo), Winchell, Walter, 757–58 129–31 Winner, Percy, 49 Yordan, Philip, xxv Winston, Harry, 49 Young Medardus (Schnitzler), 568 Wolfe, Thomas, 816 Young, Donald Dean, 17 Wolheim, Louis, 269, 273, 277–80, 282, Young, Janet, 689 287–90, 294–95, 298, 304, 308, Young, Rida Johnson, 213–14 315–16 Young, Stark (as producer), 321, 334–35, Woman’s Honor (Glaspell), 33 340–41, 344–47, 351–52, 358, 381, 428 Women’s Wear Daily, 134, 159, 245, 268, Young, Stark (as reviewer), 288, 415, 442, 323, 362, 365, 412, 443–45, 477, 519, 462, 502, 541, 587, 668, 713, 750, 780, 560, 640, 696, 757–58, 761, 835–36, 819, 888 862, 925–26, 929, 948 Wood, A. L. S., 318–19 Zola, Emile,´ 213–14 Woodward, George, 217 Zorach, William and Marguerite, xxii Woolf, Virginia, 578 Zunser, Jesse, 876

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