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...Tyrone family does not make a pretty picture. The mother (Inga Tidblad) is a dope fiend. The father is an actor (as O'Neill's father was) and a monumental skinflint. Jamie Tyrone is a wastrel and a drunkard like his father, and Edmund (Jarl Kulle), obviously patterned on O'Neill himself, is a consumptive. These four haunted characters spend their long day's journey into night gnawing at each other. They sit around the living room table drinking, talking, baring their minds, hating each other, yet cemented together in one miserable unit of family love...
They get precious little of it, for the duke is a skinflint. After every payday, he cheats his staff out of their wages in an unfriendly game of cards. Forever inviting guests, the duke is an outrageous host. The wine they admire, he knows will not "travel." Wheedled out of him and carted home, it tastes like vinegar. The villa's glittering bathrooms are tiled with condescending instructions: "Press handle down, hold for one minute and release with a slight jerk." The ten-year-old footman has been taught to speed departing guests with the final salute: "You-goddamned...
...Amusement Enterprises, Inc. (Comedian Benny's corporate entity), the Bureau of Internal Revenue ruling meant that the $1,356,000 due Benny from CBS as 60% stockholder was subject to a whopping $1,030,000 in personal income taxes. Until he got the dire word, professional skinflint Benny had hoped (on advice of counsel) that he would have to pay only $300,000 in capital-gains taxes...
...bought a pitcher with a bad arm). Sam Breadon sold baseball heroes as he also sold Pierce-Arrows, and the fertile Cardinal "farm system" which Vice President Branch Rickey built for him produced new-model heroes who won nine National League pennants. St. Louis thought of Sam as a skinflint horse-trader...
...week. The wag from Waukegan asked NBC listeners for 50-word statements be ginning "I can't stand Jack Benny because...." The contest began as a scriptwriter's gag, but Benny took it seriously. Jack will be able to pay the prize money, without damage to his skinflint radio reputation : it will all be chargeable to program promotion, deductible for income...