Word: misbegotten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month Carmen Capalbo and Stanley Chase, the 29-year-old producers of The Threepenny Opera, will invade Broadway with the world première of Graham Greene's The Potting Shed, follow up with a New York premiere of O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten. After seeing their Iceman, O'Neill's widow asked Director Jose Quintero and associates to stage the profitable Broadway premiere of Long Day's Journey into Night. 'Take a Giant Step, which analyzes in painful detail the struggles of a Negro boy in a small...
...George Bernard Shaw's centennial year there is talk of productions of Major Barbara, The Apple Cart and St. Joan, starring Siobhan McKenna. Eugene O'Neill's posthumous drama A Long Day's Journey Into Night (TIME, Feb. 20) and his Moon for the Misbegotten (TIME, Aug. 4, 1952) will get their long-awaited first Broadway productions...
...Collins) held up publication of the book for 18 months while lawyers checked it, and friends of Lawrence were asked to rebut its accusations. Lawrence of Arabia, A Biographical Enquiry, by Novelist Richard Aldington, says without mincing words that, far from being a hero, Lawrence of Arabia was a misbegotten fraud, a perverted charlatan, a pretentious demagogue, possibly a homosexual, certainly a poseur, a liar and a plain fake. The effect, as one paper put it, was "as if someone charged that Nelson knew nothing about the sea." "Is this the end of a legend?" asked a sign printed...
...that the notions of orderly development of resources and maintenance of national parks as a public heritage were the misbegotten brain children of "long-haired New Dealers." Conservation through use-that's the ticket. By the way, whom do I see to enter a claim on Old Faithful? I've got a nifty idea for a private-enterprise laundry...
...Neill is more prolix than profound in handling his melancholy theme. But he has enlivened it with Irish brogue and blague. And even when its dramatic light is half-hidden under a bushel of theatrics, A Moon for the Misbegotten casts a brighter gleam than any new play which the past season brought to Manhattan's Grey White...