Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Eugene Dieudonne, recently pardoned life-term convict who escaped from Devil's Island; to his former wife who divorced him 16 years ago, at his own command, when he was first sentenced; in Paris...
...grief with martyrdom. Believing she must help war cripples to happiness she lives with them. Dr. Ned Darrell, unconsciously in love with her, arranges to have her marry Sam Evans, genial weakling, to afford her anchorage. Not loving Sam she consents, thinking (still the martyr) she can beautify his life and ease her own sorrow with babies...
...Fourth Act. Husband Sam, ignorant of the family taint or Nina's operation, haunted with the fear that he is sterile, is losing his grip on life...
...Ninth Act. Son and flapper disappear to start life together. Darrell is finally sent away forever. Grey-haired Nina, grey-haired Marsden subside into the painless decay of dreams through which so many live when useful life is done...
Beyond and above all these disturbances rose the conviction of many an acute observer that a great play had been delivered to the world. Writhing and not always sharply articulate in the labor of his composition, Playwright O'Neill has done no tidy job. Raw life does not arrive that way. Uncompromising, tiny and horribly large, mystic and yet inestimably exact, Strange Interlude sweats blood...