Word: aped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...group published in book form under the Caribbees title. Bound East for Cardiff, In the Zone and The Long Voyage Home are the companion pieces. They are all sea stories, done in the early O'Neill style, when the first indications of Anna Christie and The Hairy Ape were stirring in his brain. Since the plays have been played and published for some time, their content is familiar. It only remains to be noted that the Provincetown group set and performed them notably. There are no star parts which pull above the surface the heads of one player...
...particular pride is his body. He boasts that he, "over 40 years old, can run nine miles with sprightliness." He sees a fundamental identity between genius and physical health. Among his novels-some 20 in number-are Prince Zaleski, Shapes in the Fire, The Purple Cloud, The Pale Ape, Children of the Wind. The Lord of the Sea was first published...
...standard authors in the work of students, and doubly so to have a dash of Latin and Greek quotations. But the results are more satisfactory if the tyro adapts his production rather than copies the originals closely. There are interesting speciments of various stages of playing the sedulous ape in the current number...
...authors (Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson) owe no moderate debt to the cast for a performance that rubs elbows with perfection. Louis Wolheim (Hairy Ape) plays the drunken captain; William Boyd, the sergeant; and Leyla Georgie, a newcomer, the girl. Mr. Wolheim has the toughest face in the American Theatre, the toughest part as Captain Flagg, and he blends them irresistibly. The remainder of the company seems a superb selection. The play with any other cast would smell too sweet...
None but the Brave?A bitterly objective War play by Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson is now in rehearsal with Louis Wolheim (Hairy Ape) as star. In the cast are 15 men and 1 woman...