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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese" O'Neill. At this play tender members of the audience will do well to plug their ears with cotton. Toward the end of the second act, the muscular "Chinese" O'Neill, soldier of fortune extraordinary, finds himself and his English friends, including the dashing Hon. Nancy Beresford, trapped within a rickety Chinese inn by crawling yellow men. O'Neill begins blasting away with a machine gun. The ladies have horse pistols. Several other characters have miscellaneous shooting irons. But despite this artillery the Chinamen triumph, enter with a cabinet in which is contained the corpse of the Hon. Nancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jun. 3, 1929 | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

Gerson is no great loss to the race. But in the last act, prisoned in the lacquered mansion of the dread Chang Kai Chang, the Hon. Nancy and "Chinese" O'Neill nearly meet their doom. At the last moment the adventurous Celt obtains a Colt, takes a pot shot at the munition-laden ships of Chang Kai Chang?"Master of the China Sea." He does not miss. He embraces the Hon. Nancy during a thunderous holocaust which signals the utter destruction of all their enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jun. 3, 1929 | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

SECONDS ST. JOHN'S PREP Crotty, e.f. 3b., Lashua O'Neill, 2b. s.s., MacDermott Durkee, l.f. 3b., Nyhan Donaldson, r.f. 2b., Chesnulercitch Sims, c. e.f., Murphy Huxtable, s.s, r.f., Lynch Carroll, 1b. l.f., Donovan Kebehum, 3b. e., Ryan Gilmor, p. p., Biggi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ST. JOHN'S PREP TO MEET SUBS THIS AFTERNOON | 5/22/1929 | See Source »

...exoticism. This fact is always made apparent at Manhattan's annual Little Theatre Tournament. The seventh contest, held last week, was cut to the conventional pattern. Twenty amateur organizations competed, each presenting a one-act play. One group from Denver gave a horrific vignette by Eugene O'Neill in which a white couple and a Negro are shown adrift on a raft in tropic seas. Another Denver company chose for its dramatic locale a rainswept bit of Maine seacoast where the incessant downpour drove a bedraggled housewife insane, sent her out to follow the fancied ghost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Little Theatre Tournament | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

Second Freshmen-Stroke, C. F. Adams Jr.; 7, C. F. Hovey; 6, W. B. Trafford; 6, W. S. Thomas; 4, A. H. Crimmins; 3, R. A. Kent; 2, N. B. Talbot; bow, T. E. Covel; cox, S. A. Neill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN CREWS SHARE RACE HONORS WITH TECH | 5/3/1929 | See Source »

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