Word: electras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sullivan's burlesque on Mourning Becomes Electra, the most elaborate buffoonery in the show, runs to punning. One character is mortally "a-Freud." another consents to a request with "Well, if you incest." Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill is the one who gets shot at the end of the rigmarole, but is happily saved from death by a telephone book which he has been concealing beneath his clothing the manuscript for his new play...
Married. Selena Royle, daughter of Playwright Edwin Milton Royle, actress (Peer Gynt, her father's Launcelot & Elaine}; and Earle Larimore, Theatre Guild actor (Mourning Becomes Electra); in Manhattan...
...article i the 'Saturday Review' previous to the choice stresses the fact of the musical comedy's vivacity, and so supports the desire for reality in the drama. Since Eugene O'Neill has received the award already, the consideration of his 'Mourning Becomes Electra' has had perhaps less serious attention...
...upper reaches of the Colonial Theatre, the applause of the audience sounded like rain on the roof. Two attendants, discussing the play outside the door of the dressing room number, parted hastily to admit Alice Brady, the Lavinia Mannon of O'Neill's long but not tedious "Mourning Becomes Electra." Miss Brady manoeuvred around adeptly in her black hoop skirts. Questioned about her agility she replied...
...Manhattan; to view a production of Sadko at the Metropolitan Opera; to lunch sumptuously in Banker Otto Hermann Kahn's elegant dining room (see cut). Said he upon sailing: ''The two outstanding things in my visit . . . were meeting O'Neill and attending Mourning Becomes Electra. . . Americans have such easiness of approach. You are cordial and dignified without being stiff and conventional. Your phrase-'Be Yourself -I believe it is slang-seems a fair index of your attitude. It is good Ibsen...