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From 1914-15 O'Neill was a special student in the Drama here at the George Pierce Baker Workshop, at the same time Atkinson was an undergraduate. "America's greatest dramatist's" best known published plays include "Desire Under the Elms," "The Iceman Cometh," and "The Emperor Jones...
...unpublished plays of the late Eugene O'Neill will eventually provide a deeper understanding of the recluse dramatist's personal and family problems, according to Brooks Atkinson '17, drama critic for the New York Times, and Harry Leo Kozol '27, clinical associate in Neurology, two of O'Neill's few close lifetime friends...
Atkinson, who terms O'Neill "America's greatest dramatist," first became acquainted with the playwright in 1920 and remained a lifelong friend. "The unpublished manuscript I know of," Atkinson explained, "is 'A Touch of the Poet', which is probably locked up in the Random House vault...
...Long Day's Journey Into Night" is now the property of the dramatist's widow, Carlotta Monterey O'Neill, who lives in Boston. "She loves the reflected glory of being the wife of a recognized playwright," said Kozol...
...Angeles Sir: . . . The article . . . was written with organ-toned whimsy ... I resent . . . being told that Anna Christie is one of Eugene O'Neill's "worst" plays, and I resent being told that O'Neill ranks just below Shaw and O'Casey as a 20th century dramatist ... I am not privy to your sources . . . but I am of the opinion that neither you nor anyone else is in a position just yet to say which of Eugene O'Neill's plays are the "worst...