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...cold compress." While he derided "soapbox philosophers" and "commercial uplifters," Critic Nathan preached, cajoled and bullied to carve out a niche for Eugene O'Neill, the first U.S. dramatist to achieve worldwide renown. He worked as hard to popularize such famed European playwrights as Sean O'Casey, Ferenc Molnar, and Luigi Pirandello. Says the New York Times's Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson: "Nathan had as profound an influence on the American theater as George Bernard Shaw on English theater...
...inveterate party-dodger, who was lured to the restaurant by his author-wife, Oriana. The "sentimental works," as Variety called it, included a citation from Actors Equity, encomiums from such absent admirers as William Saroyan and Clifford Odets, and a letter in which choleric Irish Playwright Sean O'Casey grew moist-eyed over Critic Atkinson's "splendid defense" of the theater "throughout the times of many great events, alarums, sennets and disputes...
...loans, once for as much as $60,000. When the bank statement came in each month, he made a few changes, removed the forged, unnumbered checks as if they had never existed. His records seemed invariably in order, and the board thought, not entirely without reason, that good old "Casey" Stengle was the very model of efficiency...
...embezzled at least $125,000. Officials thought that the final figure might reach as much as $200,000. Whatever the amount, the Collingdale school district last week found itself all but flat broke. It had only about $15,000 left to last the rest of the year. Casey Stengle was very sorry, but he was also glad the whole thing was over. "After all," said he, "this has been going on for ten years, and it was a terrible strain...
RAYMOND J. CASEY National Automatic Sprinkler and Fire Control Association New York City...