Word: neill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London last week, Peggy O'Neill, old-time Irish-American actress, had just finished starring in Merry, Merry, a London hit, and was feeling gay and affluent, when from her flat near Cadogan Square $10,000 worth of jewels disappeared...
Borrowed Love. Heroine Nina Leeds of Playwright Eugene O'Neill's famed Strange Interlude sees her weakling husband tortured by fears of his own sterility, knows him to be the possible heir of a family lunatic strain. Partly to restore his happiness, partly out of love for her friend Dr. Darrell, Nina decides to have a child -by Dr. Darrell. This she does. The circumstance is only part of the vast neurotic complex of the play. Springing from characters whose histories are lengthily and deeply traced, it is an integral, convincing element in the drama...
Member Alfred S. Austrian, able attorney, was not-so-good golfer. He could barely "break" (score less than) 100. He offered Club Professional George A. Neill $10,000 if he could teach him to break 80. Scot Neill set to work on Member Austrian. Weeks passed. Came at last a day when the Austrian score added up to only 78, then came a 79, 77. Honest, grateful, member Austrian paid the promised $10,000. Scot Neill then asked him why he had been so anxious to break 80. The Austrian reply...
Sued. Eugene O'Neill, playwright; by Gladys Adelina Selma ("Georges Lewys") Lewis, authoress; for $1,125,000. Her charge: that Playwright O'Neill "stole" plot and characters for his nine-act Strange Interlude from her privately-printed novel The Temple of Pallas Athenae (1924). Playwright O'Neill, in the South of France, cabled: "Never heard of book mentioned. Person must be crazy...
Opposed to these loud Occidentals who fill the theatre with the smell of gunpowder are a batch of Orientals who rattle slates, employ green strangling cords, talk occasionally like old Southern gentlemen. Douglass R. Dumbrille, late of The Three Musketeers, is an inimitable O'Neill...