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...YORK CITY-One does not normally associate humor with Eugene O'Neill. Yet he was fully capable of it, as evidenced byAh, Wilderness! and the lesser-known Marco Millions(often incorrectly calledMarco's Millions,whereas O'Neill was consciously adapting Polo's Italian nickname, "Marco il Milione...
...Although Marco is not top-drawer O'Neill, even the B-plus work of our greatest American dramatist merits full attention. Finished in 1925 and originally produced in 1928, the play has until now been revived only once, I believe-by the Harvard Dramatic Club at Sanders Theatre in 1954. It was an inspired choice on the part of Lincoln Center to offer this neglected treasure as a companion to Arthur Miller's new play, which it officially joined in repertory last night. (My remarks, it should be cautioned, are based on a viewing five days before the formal opening...
...Marco Millions is O'Neill's most Shavian play, Though imbued with much poetic philosophizing, it is nonetheless peppered with brilliant epigrams and witty repartee. For all its use of the historical Marco Polo and exotic sites in medieval Venice, Persia, India, Mongolia and Cathay, there is no mistaking that the target of this epic satire was the materialistic and acquisitive American businessman-a creature that O'Neill also examined in Desire Under the Elms, The Great God Brown, and Long Day's Journey Into Night, and one that still confronts us on every side, in a more notoriously tired...
Cousins & Nephews. Alarmed by Arnulfo's radical talk, Panama's ruling elite would like to stop him, but cannot agree on how. President Chiari, who is barred from running again, has thrown his weight behind Marco Robles, 58, a second cousin, for President. Arnulfo's own family has put its money and newspaper support behind Juan de Arco Galindo, 53, a wealthy Georgia Tech trained engineer. On the ticket as Vice President: Gilberto Arias, Arnulfo's nephew...
There are moments in The Venetian Affair when the Piazza di San Marco teems with so many international cads and American gumshoes that there is hardly room for the tourists and the pigeons. But who cares? The movements of any first-rate thriller are as measured and predictable as the steps of a quadrille. Half the fun is knowing what is bound to happen next...