Word: boulton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PART OF A LONG STORY, by Agnes Boulton. Eugene O'Neill's second wife describes just a year and a half of her life with genius, but she makes it memorable. Great drunken sprees were wedged between great plays, and melodrama was always just around the living-room door...
PART OF A LONG STORY (331 pp.)-Agnes Boulton-Doubleday...
Author Agnes Boulton begins her story in 1917, five years after the end of Long Day's Journey, when O'Neill's first one-acters were making him the symbol and idol of the Provincetown Players. If, after 40 years, Author Boulton's memory is correct and young Eugene Gladstone O'Neill did woo and win her with the lines she attributes to him, it is no wonder that much of the story reads like a parody of Victorian melodrama. O'Neill once explained that he had trained himself as a playwright by reading...
...room beyond was filled with smoke; flames licked through the floor amid the cribs, and one baby's bedding was already taking fire. Sister Holland screamed for help and rushed into the ward. Another nurse came to help, but they were both too late to save little Christopher Boulton, aged six hours, who lay in the smoldering bed. He died in Nurse Holland's arms as she carried him from the room...
During the show, two tiny delta-wing jets, the Avro 707-B and the Boulton Paul P-III, whizzed past the stands with amazing maneuverability. They looked like boys' paper darts, but they flew so fast that they had to land with parachute drags. Many British experts believe that airplanes like them will dominate the future. Britain's Minister of Supply, George R. Strauss (who lets all British aircraft contracts), calls the delta-wings "maybe the most important new factor in aeronautics...