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...this writer's money, is fine writing. Perhaps, if Mr. O'Neill took that sentence for the theme of a new drama based on the five "years of silence and suffering," he would create the great play your critic estimates he has not created in The Iceman Cometh. FITZROY DAVIS Evanston...
Referring to your front cover of Oct. 21− your ice man cometh, but he droppeth his ice before he arriveth, unless he reviseth the manner in which he holdeth his tongs. . . . PAUL RAINEY Georgetown, Ohio ¶ He always gets there...
...finally wound up as an able-bodied seaman. For O'Neill the discovery of the sea was almost a religious experience. Later in Manhattan, he bummed around at a saloon called Jimmy the Priest's (Jimmy was the prototype of the saloon keeper in The Iceman Cometh). Later he acted in his father's stock company...
...Neill career had begun. Before The Iceman Cometh, it had yielded such theater milestones as The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape, Desire under the Elms, The Great God Brown, Strange Interlude, Mourning becomes Electro, and Ah, Wilderness...
...quiet, which was ultimately to be destroyed by illness, was first invaded by something more sinister. By 1938 the sickening geologic slipping and faulting of world affairs had so profoundly disturbed him that he had gone stale on his cycle. By 1939 he turned, for relief, to The Iceman Cometh. By 1940, his whole scheme of work began to fall apart. His financial and personal relationships were untouched; his leisure for work was still unlimited. But some subtle, insidious things (and some brutally simple ones) destroyed the apparent perfection of his life...