Word: cometh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Neill, 57, gaunt, greying, his hands ashake with paralysis agitans, was in town for rehearsals of The Iceman Cometh (his first play on Broadway in twelve years). He said he had written nothing since 1943. "I hope to resume writing as soon as I can," said he, "but the war has thrown me completely off base.... I have to get back to a sense of writing being worthwhile. ... I'd have to pretend...
Manhattan's Theatre Guild last week excitedly opened a bulky package from one of its favorite playwrights. Not since Days Without End in 1934 had Eugene O'Neill come through with a new play. But last week he sent the Guild three: The Ice Man Cometh, A Moon for the Misbegotten and A Touch of the Poet...
...which O'Neill has been working, long and mysteriously. It belongs near the middle of the cycle but, like each of the others, is complete in itself. The Guild does not plan to produce it until 1947. First production-probably next October-will be The Ice Man Cometh, starring Eddie Dowling...
Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. . . . In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world-St. John 16: 32-33 (King James version...
...that he was desperately afraid of being "one of those who shall be damned." "What do you mean by damned?" asked his doctor. "Sent to Hell, sir, and punished everlastingly," roared Johnson. He would glance fearfully at the dial of his watch, which bore the Greek inscription: The night cometh, when no man can work. But on his deathbed his deep piety came to the fore. "I will take no more physic, not even my opiates," he said; "for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded." On Dec. 20, 1784, he was buried...