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...Ibsen, wives by Strindberg. In his 40th year he left Agnes Boulton (mother of Shane and Oona O'Neill), a short-story writer who once fell asleep while he was reading a script to her. His third and last wife never made that mistake. Born Hazel Tharsing, Carlotta Monterey met her fourth husband when she played in The Hairy Ape. Once her eyes, "like wet grapes," fixed on him, she blessed and cursed the playwright with all the attention a writer could dream...
...Real Love." Carlotta played mistress (a little), mother (a lot), as well as efficient housekeeper and secretary. She intercepted O'Neill's mail, censored his clippings, and jealously screened his friends-especially women. Half a dozen innocent conversations with O'Neill put a very young actress named Patricia Neal on Carlotta's enemy list. Years later, when Miss Neal, then a star, was about to be signed for a revival of Desire Under the Elms, Carlotta vetoed the casting. Yet by her fanatical possessiveness Carlotta gave O'Neill both the protection he needed...
...June 21, 1939, Carlotta Monterey O'Neill, third wife of Eugene O'Neill, made the following diary entry: "A hot, sleepless night. Gene talks to me for hours-about a play (in his mind) of his mother, father, his brother and himself." That play was to be Long Day's Journey Into Night, the greatest drama ever written by an American. Apart from its power, honesty, wisdom, passion and compassion, the play is a notable example of how an act of personal exorcism-"to face my dead," as O'Neill put it-can emerge...
...Neills were a family of intimate and obsessive intensity, and Director Arvin Brown and his players never let us forget it. The dialogue is the music of doom as if played by a great string quartet. Years after the play had been written, Carlotta O'Neill recalled that "when he started Long Day's Journey, it w.as a most strange experience to watch that man being tortured every day by his own writing. His eyes would be all red, and he looked ten years older than when he went in in the morning. I think he felt freer...
...delivered by Actresses Ethel Shutta and Fifi d'Orsay?who premiered in 1925 with Gallagher and Shean in the Greenwich Village Follies. They were found subjects as, in a way, was Yvonne De Carlo, who seemed wrong for the role of Phyllis but fit perfectly the rebuilt part of Carlotta, the mantrap. Prince also was the man who finally decided that Alexis Smith as Phyllis would lend the show a permanent radiance that does not acknowledge the movement of the clock...