Word: neil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hell!" was Warden Crawford's reply each time, approved by Governor William H. Adams over the telephone from Denver. About 10 p.m., Cellhouse No. 4 caught fire, heightening the glare in the courtyard. The convicts in Cellhouse No. 3 still held ten hostages. Father Patrick O'Neil, the burly prison priest, cried: "I can stand this no longer!" He started across the open yard with a lumberman's coat over his clericals, bearing not peace and absolution but Death-a 50 Ib. box of dynamite. Rifles and machine guns on the prison wall and in the warden...
...Hatfield's offer of the University Theatre for the production of the "Strange Interlude" should win him the sympathy of a large majority of his hitherto moving-picture-going public. Better plays have been written than Eugene O'Neil's Pulitzer Prize Play, but it is hardly surprising that such unreasonable and bigoted pseudo-puritanism on the part of Boston authorities should be met by widespread resentment, manifested not only by indignant letters and editorials in the press, but by such practical offers as Mr. Hat-field...
...Eugene O'Neil is considered by many the foremost American playwright. He studied under George Pierce Baker '87, formerly the tutor of the famed "47 Workshop...
...staging of the "Strange Interlude" on Harvard Square became a real possibility yesterday when Charles E. Hatfield, owner of the University Theatre on Harvard Square, offered his stage to the Theatre Guild of New York as a scene for the production of Eugene O'Neil's Pulitzer Prize Play recently banned in Boston...
...trite situations for purposes of comedy. Between arid stretches, two sequences are fairly funny-the college play, when he has to let his worst enemy make love to him, and the football game which he wins by tackling a teammate who is running the wrong way. Sally O'Neil is in the cast. She does fairly well, but the old college material is so stale it is hardly amusing even when parodied. A faintly witty caricature-the radio announcer at the football game. College Coquette (Columbia). Garnished with some guttural and vapid dialog in the mouths of Ruth Taylor...