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...basic story line is simple enough. Dion Anthony and William Brown are high school friends and both are in love with a girl named Margaret. Anthony wins the girl but messes up his life while Brown becomes an intensely driven and successful architect. Not only do they share the same mistress, Cybel, but when Anthony falls on hard times Brown gives him work ghost-designing important assignments. Anthony's impossibly sensitive nature drives him to drink and death. Brown has what he's waited a lifetime for, the chance to assume Anthony's role as husband, father and creative designer...
WHILE THAT'S A SYNOPSIS of the play as it realistic drama, there is in fact little realistic about it. O'Neill won't let his characters have their own personalities and foists symbolic roles upon them. As he confesses in the program notes. "Dion Anthony is the creative pagan acceptance of life fighting eternal war with the masochistic, life-denying spirit of Christianity as represented by Saint Anthony:" Margaret is the "eternal girl woman with a virtuous simplicity of instinct, properly oblivious to everything but the means to her end of maintaining the race;" Cybel is "an incarnation...
...Regents sang "Runaround," and Dion recorded "Runaround Sue" with "Runaway Girl" as a flip side. But who sang about a girl who ran away and said he wished she were there by him to end his misery? Hint: He recorded the song while he was on contract with...
...Loneliness is a common theme in old rock 'n' roll songs. Name a song title by each of the following singers which contained the word "lonely": Paul Anka, Gary Stites, Dion, and Jackie Wilson...
...three hits in a single year. Paul Anka appeared on the charts at the end of 1969 with a tune about happiness. Rick Nelson grew his hair and made a hit out of "She Belongs to Me." and the Every Brothers started making it big on television shows. Dion reappeared, but he copped out and sang about issues. Now Sha Na Na. the care of the revival, has put out an album to further feed the flames of greasy hysteria...