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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Divorced. Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, playwright; by Agnes Boulton O'Neill; in Reno, Nev. Grounds: desertion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 15, 1929 | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...kept her from committing suicide by jumping off London Bridge. In India later she is the blonde wife of a Colonel so elderly and so gallant that when faced with the temptation of cuckolding him, an officer who comes from the right school will ask for a transfer. A playwright who comes from the right school will then get the woman into danger. In the besieged Buddhist monastery Esther Ralston and Dix kiss while tribesmen's 'bullets spatter around them. At intervals they speak with as much conviction as they can bombastic lines shopworn 'by ten years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 8, 1929 | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Borrowed Love. Heroine Nina Leeds of Playwright Eugene O'Neill's famed Strange Interlude sees her weakling husband tortured by fears of his own sterility, knows him to be the possible heir of a family lunatic strain. Partly to restore his happiness, partly out of love for her friend Dr. Darrell, Nina decides to have a child -by Dr. Darrell. This she does. The circumstance is only part of the vast neurotic complex of the play. Springing from characters whose histories are lengthily and deeply traced, it is an integral, convincing element in the drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jul. 1, 1929 | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

Oliver Morosco, Manhattan theatre man, found himself last week on the unpleasant end of a court judgment for $173,529. In 1911 he produced The Bird of Paradise by Richard Walton Tully of Sierra Madre, Cal. In 1912 one Grace A. Fendler sued Producer Morosco and Playwright Tully, charged that the play had been plagiarized from her In Hawaii. Last week she won her case in the New York State Supreme Court. Heavy as was Producer Morosco's lot, Playwright Tully's was worse. The damages awarded against him totaled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...Playwright Tully is not to be confused with Hobo Author Jim Tully (Beggars of Life, Circus Parade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

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