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George Riddle, an outsider who had acted with Edwin Booth, portrayed Oedipus. His success in this role was only the first of many he was to receive in the theatre. Curtis Guild, a future Massachusetts Governor, played Tiresias while Owen Wister, later to write The Virginan, was second messenger. J.K. Whittemore, George L. Kittredge, and John Knowles Paine also took part in the production. They were to become a professor of mathematics, a foremost Shakespeare critic, and the founder of the Harvard Music department, respectively...
Biggest poser for the architects was Pollard's snoring, which has been so loud that his wife Peggy often banished him to a guest room. Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons solved the problem by designing a sort of glass-enclosed sponsor's booth in a corner of the master bedroom. Once the house is finished, Dick may be seen but not heard...
...would like John Paul Jones's kidneys for their famed medical museum, there to rest alongside such other patriotic exhibits as a lock of Lincoln's hair, a slide of U.S. Grant's throat cancer, sections of vertebrae (complete with bullet holes) of Assassin John Wilkes Booth and of assassinated President James A. Garfield...
...calls in one essay. "The Fair of Life is a fine one, even though we may, at times, fall from the swing-boats, or grow dizzy and faint as we ride the galloping, scarlet and gold clad roundabout horses, or fail to win a thing at any of the booths . . ." The booth marked "Modern English Theatre," O'Casey seems to believe, is rigged by a bunch of gyp-artists. First off, there are the critics, "death-or-drivel boys gunning with their gab from their pillboxes . . . those who take a step forward to enthrone imagination in the theatre...
...long day passes into night and they have all tried their escapes, they come together again to one another. The memories--Mary's wedding-dress, Edwin Booth's praise for James years ago--lie in the attic trunk above, whispering waste and despair. Love has imposed a mighty toll upon their lives, but in the end it binds them together, wracked by pity and fear. Young Edmund's hopeless citation of Nietzsche, "God is dead: of His pity for man hath God died," is forgotten. O'Neill has forgiven the Tyrones as we must forgive all mankind...