Word: provincetown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Solely to amuse themselves, a group of friends at Provincetown, Mass., 16 summers ago, went over to Hutchins Hapgood's verandah and put on a couple of plays. Susan Glaspell was there; so were George Cram ("Jig") Cook, rebel John Reed, Mary Heaton Vorse. Robert Edmond Jones, a young man of talent and resource, fashioned scenery out of porch furniture, odds-&-ends. The Almighty supplied the backdrop, a tumbling ocean. Next year the play-acting fad persisted. Mary Vorse turned over a shack on her wharf to the enterprise and someone named Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, a lank...
...most important epoch in Eugene O'Neill's life is not his dismissal from Princeton in 1907 for hijinks, not the period in which he bummed about on ships, not even his long association with the Provincetown Players. It begins on Christmas Eve, 1912, when drink and irregular habits sent him into the Gaylord Farm (Wallingford, Conn.) sanitarium, a tuberculous patient. His biographers note that he went in a boy and came out a man. At least, that was where he started writing seriously. Up to that time his sorely-tried father, Actor James O'Neill, thought...
...private secretary in the Manhattan offices of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. She trained herself to enunciate perfectly so that dictaphone records of letters which she relayed to typists would not, like those of her colleagues, be blurred and unintelligible. She gave up her job to act with the Provincetown Players. After experience in stock companies, she got the lead role in The Trial of Mary Dugan. Her first picture, Paris Bound, was an immediate, brilliant success. Now she has a $6,000-a-week contract, is the only cinemactress in Hollywood who has had three of her pictures given what...
...Beauteous, of classic mold, she is the first U. S. addition to the Mahatma's platonic harem. She speaks Indo-Aryan and other Oriental languages, recently made a novel of her own eventful life. Her father was the late George Cram ("Jig") Cook, author, playwright, onetime director of the Provincetown Players, who, successively the husband of Sara Herndon Swain, Mollie A. Price, Playwright Susan Glaspell (Allison's House), adopted Greece as his country and died there seven years...
Encouraged by the shouts, cheery or derisive, of Provincetown's Portuguese fishermen, the fleet then set out across Massachusetts Bay for Marblehead, for the first formal gaieties of the cruise. It was a day of light, following airs;Andiamo, lifting and gliding under her great spinnaker, made the most startling run of the cruise and reached Marblehead more than an hour ahead of the rest. After a day's racing at Marblehead the weather was calm again; the fleet had itself towed through the canal at the base of Cape Cod to Buzzard's Bay. There...