Word: misbegottens
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...culture-conscious citizens of Columbus, Ohio support three little-theater groups, a good art gallery, a vigorous symphony orchestra and, this season, some 50 concerts. Even so, the world premiere last week of Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten was Columbus' big cultural and social event. Undiscouraged by bitter weather, the city's elite honored it as such...
...Completed three other plays: A Moon for the Misbegotten (which will be produced in December), A Touch of the Poet (which will be produced next year), Long Day's Journey into Night, which, for reasons unspecified, cannot be produced until 25 years after the author's death...
...Theatre Guild last week excitedly opened a bulky package from one of its favorite playwrights. Not since Days Without End in 1934 had Eugene O'Neill come through with a new play. But last week he sent the Guild three: The Ice Man Cometh, A Moon for the Misbegotten and A Touch of the Poet...
They went abroad together for the first time in the fall of 1939 as the German Wehrmacht was slicing up Poland. Shelley worked in Sweden while her husband photographed the misbegotten Russo-Finnish war. She was in Portugal on the "balcony of Europe" when France fell. Eight months later she was in China, finding and setting up stories for her husband, placating unwilling camera subjects, dodging Japanese bombs and shellfire, writing her own copy. They got to Burma and Singapore ahead of the Japs, taking pictures and writing stories. Then they went to Manila-in October...
Almost without exception, the U.S. press hammered at the misbegotten OWI epithets and propaganda line. New Deal-hating Roy Howard's New York World-Telegram ran five stories and an editorial in one issue. To most critics the main point was that OWI had muffed its best chance to do an effective propaganda job. Whatever the fall of Mussolini meant to John Durfee, it meant plenty to Axis, neutral and captive citizens.* The symbol of Fascism was through. OWI might have pounded that home to them in their own languages-as BBC did from Britain...