Word: cook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Girls--Ann Gibson, Rosalind Kelsey, Sue Birnie, Margaret Cook, Mildred Gill, Ruth Seltz, Jeanne Goodstein, Fay Goell...
...ROAD TO THE TEMPLE-Susan Glaspell-Stokes ($3). Biography of the late George Cram Cook, founder of the Provincetown Players, the man behind the scenes of Playwright Eugene O'Neill and many another whose name is better known to the wide world than "Jig" Cook...
...never did a man himself come closer to being in his biography than the late George Cram Cook now comes. Susan Glaspell, the wife with whom he lived his richest years, is an attentive woman. She appears to have seen him whole and in part, forgotten nothing. Her spirit is great enough to put self entirely aside except at moments of the greatest intimacy and importance-the very moments when an inferior nature would have quailed ox bridled. She has recreated and interpreted times and persons she could not have shared, with a quality of understanding that makes the book...
...Floyd Dell, his onetime gardener, is partly his work. The sea soughed in the piles and spouted up through the planks of the wharf on the first night of Bound East for Cardiff but the sea was never kinder to Eugene O'Neill than his first producer, "Jig" Cook, to whom the poets of Greece gave a fragment of Apollo's temple at Delphi for a tombstone, for whom Greek athletes have revived the Parthian games...
...Author. "Jig" Cook's genius for play, rich and unashamed, was the thing that made him a great "spiritual communist." When there was little wine left in the bowl, "Give it all to me," he cried, "and I guarantee to intoxicate all the rest of you." Susan Glaspell may puzzle folk who would have withheld their share of the wine. Just when this radiant book, dedicated to "Jig" Cook's children (she has none), is published, she has remarried...