Word: conners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THOMAS E. O'CONNER FORT WAYNE...
...maestro makes an abrupt pronouncement: "Up with him!" The stagehands lift the platform and Mephisto into the air. The audience first sees him sitting on the arm of the chair that screens the trapdoor, nonchalantly swinging his foot and cane. Meanwhile, behind the rear study wall. Marguerite (Soprano Nadine Conner) is climbing a narrow set of stairs to a platform, aided by a stagehand...
...Mephisto flourishes his cane. Behind the scenery, backstage spots begin to glow, lighting Singer Conner; as a result, Faust and the audience see the vision of Marguerite through a scrimmed hole in the middle of Faust's bookcase. Faust, enraptured, signs away his soul to the Devil, drinks the potion to restore his youth. While Mephisto struts about flashing his cape to distract the audience, Faust rips off his old-man disguise and springs forward as a young...
Although his stories are set in Ireland, and his characters say "Begor" rather than "Good Lord," O'Conner's nationalism merely adds spice to the staple of universality that marks his characters and situations. Money and sex, religion and childhood are the problems with which he confronts his people. And they either solve them or they do not, depending on their personality which has been presented more or less explicitly. For example, in a story called Masculine Protest, a boy runs away from home after a quarrel with his mother and returns the next day. Yet he has solved...
Humor never disappears for long in Frank O'Conner's work. It is a sympathetic, almost humble humor which is as much written for the object as at him. "There are a lot of things old bishops have to put up with besides old age, loneliness, and lack of domestic comforts, and the worst of these is coadjutors. To be God Almighty tagged on you to see that your justice and morality are the proper kind, is a more than human ordeal...