Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Took to the air to deliver his most bitter blast yet against the "Taft-Vandenberg-Bricker Axis...
...Georgia the death of Gene Talmadge led to a bitter "Battle of the Governors" among Herman Talmadge, Ellis Arnall...
...Ohio support three little-theater groups, a good art gallery, a vigorous symphony orchestra and, this season, some 50 concerts. Even so, the world premiere last week of Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten was Columbus' big cultural and social event. Undiscouraged by bitter weather, the city's elite honored it as such...
...Frank & Bitter. There are only five actors in O'Neill's new play, and three of them carry the whole of it. The three: James Dunn as a drunken bachelor landlord; Mary Welch as a big Connecticut hill girl; J. M. Kerrigan as her conniving, Irish tenant farmer father. The play tells of Dunn's blind quest for redemption from a hell of liquor and women; of Miss Welch's efforts to make him happy and to alleviate her own hell as an outsized woman; of her father's willingness to make something...
...Misbegotten is a far more impressive play than The Iceman Cometh. There was also a feeling that like Iceman, Moon will run into censorship troubles if & when it tries to shine on Boston (see PEOPLE). The play is pretty frank in general and the Irish farmer has some bitter things to say in particular about Standard Oil, churchgoers, English royalty. Moon is of hardly more than conventional length, but there was general agreement that it could stand some cutting. As a piece of writing it is rich in poetry. As drama, it puts a heavy burden on its three main...