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...afternoon last week, for reasons best known to himself, O'Neill was back on Broadway with a mysterious play, mysteriously titled The Iceman Cometh, which would run for four and a quarter hours, with a 75-minute break for supper...
...that "first night" afternoon, some 1,200 people made the Martin Beck Theater resonant with that exhilarating precurtain buzz, like leaves before a storm, which has been familiar to theatergoers for 2,500 years. There was plenty to buzz about. There was the exciting fact that The Iceman Cometh was the first new O'Neill play to be produced since Days without End (1934). There was its cryptic title, clumsily poetic, naively sardonic and intensely O'Neillian, which caused one foreboding wag to suggest that a better name would be The Ice Tray Always Sticks Twice. The play...
...Neill, 57, gaunt, greying, his hands ashake with paralysis agitans, was in town for rehearsals of The Iceman Cometh (his first play on Broadway in twelve years). He said he had written nothing since 1943. "I hope to resume writing as soon as I can," said he, "but the war has thrown me completely off base.... I have to get back to a sense of writing being worthwhile. ... I'd have to pretend...
Manhattan's Theatre Guild last week excitedly opened a bulky package from one of its favorite playwrights. Not since Days Without End in 1934 had Eugene O'Neill come through with a new play. But last week he sent the Guild three: The Ice Man Cometh, A Moon for the Misbegotten and A Touch of the Poet...
...which O'Neill has been working, long and mysteriously. It belongs near the middle of the cycle but, like each of the others, is complete in itself. The Guild does not plan to produce it until 1947. First production-probably next October-will be The Ice Man Cometh, starring Eddie Dowling...