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Eugene O’Neill: the Contemporary Reviews Edited by Jackson R Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-38264-9 - Eugene O’Neill: The Contemporary Reviews Edited by Jackson R. Bryer and Robert M. Dowling Index More information Index Headings in bold typeface indicate names of reviewers. A. K., 326 compared with The Ancient Mariner, A. McC. S., 509 378–79 Abbey Players of Dublin, xxi compared with The Emperor Jones, 369, Abbott, Berenice, 49, 51 372, 381, 385 Abbott, George, 823 compared with The Hairy Ape, 381–82 Abel, Walter compared with Marco Millions, 534 Desire Under the Elms, 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 The Great God Brown, xxxii American Theater (St. Louis), 837 compared with The Iceman Cometh, 802 Ames, Kirk, 363 compared with Marco Millions, 755 Amoureuse (Porto-Riche), 343–44 compared with Mourning Becomes Electra, Ancient Mariner, The 736, 746, 751 reviews, 349–62 compared with Strange Interlude, 751 compared with All God’s Chillun Got compared with A Touch of the Poet, 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, 772 969 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-38264-9 - Eugene O’Neill: The Contemporary Reviews Edited by Jackson R. Bryer and Robert M. Dowling Index More information 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. “Anna Christie” 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, 443 970 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-38264-9 - Eugene O’Neill: The Contemporary Reviews Edited by Jackson R. Bryer and Robert M. Dowling Index More information 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 In the Zone,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, 853 971 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-38264-9 - Eugene O’Neill: The Contemporary Reviews Edited by Jackson R.
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