Word: dynamo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well written farce by the Hungarian Sil-Vara, made vastly entertaining by the direction of Philip Moeller and the fine playing of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. The Guild still sponsors that five hour marathon by O'Neill, "Strange Interlude", whose latest and far less successful play, "Dynamo" closes tonight...
...Hurricanes (typhoons sea cyclones) reach 150 m. p. h., tornadoes (land cyclones) 300 m. p. h. Conservative calculations estimate the force of a hurricane at more than 100 billion horsepower. The 1926 Miami hurricane is calculated to have had enough power to run every dynamo, motor and steam engine in the world for 20 years...
...Dynamo. All the fallibility of Eugene O'Neill as a playwright is to be found in his latest play, the first of a trilogy in which, believe it or not, he evidently seeks to answer no less a question than: What is God? It is the dramatization of that inexplicable bewilderment that has befogged men from the first grey light of a primeval dawn. To the farrago of groping speculation that has entangled the ages, O'Neill has brought the confusion of his own technique in the theatre. It could scarcely be expected that the result would...
...electricity he finds a great life force. This he chooses to worship. But then, again, he finds that he is bowing before something that is unexplained. He sacrifices his earthly love to it but is unappeased. In the end he gives himself to this new deity, the dynamo, only to be thrown back lifeless, so far as this world is concerned. Or has he just begun to live? O'Neill begs the question with his final curtain...
...Neill play, Dynamo, opened, last week, in Manhattan...