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...Corrigan employes was Price McKinney, energetic bookkeeper. He was trusted and deserved the trust. At the beginning of the century he became a partner and the firm name became Corrigan-McKinney. When "Young Jim," prancing rich man's son, tripped into scrapes, the partners rescued him and up braided him. Captain James C. Corrigan died in 1908, having named Price Mc Kinney trustee of his estate. To his son he left only $15,000 unrestricted. Millions were in trust. The young man (he was 29 then) continued playing richly about, was sued for "breach of promise" by a Pittsburgh...
...Seventh Act. Nina gathers round her three men: her husband, her lover, and her faithful friend and adviser Charles Marsden, a ladylike novelist who yearns after her throughout the play. Evans is rich, Darrell a failure. The small son finds Darrell kissing Nina. She sends Darrell to the West Indies...
...Eighth Act. The son, grown potent, rows on his college eight. Watching from the expensive Evans yacht are Nina, her three men, and a flapper in love with her son. She hates the flapper about to take her son; jealously tries as did her own father to smash the match. Son wins the race. Stoutly successful, Sam dies of apoplexy...
...Ninth Act. Son and flapper disappear to start life together. Darrell is finally sent away forever. Grey-haired Nina, grey-haired Marsden subside into the painless decay of dreams through which so many live when useful life is done...
...Playwright. Eugene Gladstone O'Neill is the son of actor James O'Neill, famed across the U. S. in earlier days as Monte Cristo. With his trouping father and a devoted mother, not an actress, he spent staccato years in larger cities where James O'Neill was acting. After that, school days under Catholic and later conventional preparatory schoolmasters. Then a year at Princeton, whence he was fired for a "prank." Then an inordinate mixture of oddities. He worked in a mail order firm in Manhattan; went gold prospecting to Honduras; shipped as a common sailor to South American ports...