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...Neill had no reason to worry about money. His plays had netted him some $2,000,000; he could hope for a steadier income only if he had also written the Bible and a cookbook. His third marriage, with lovely Actress Carlotta Monterey, who had played opposite Louis Wolheim in O'Neill's The Hairy Ape (see cut), was an eminently happy one. After an all but mythically swift rise to fame, with 37 plays, he was still relatively young. In experience, he was a brilliant, confident professional, at the height of his hopes and powers...
...slumming, crisply clad, attractive woman passenger, appalled (and excited) by his looks and language, recoiled and called him "the filthy beast!" At large ashore, he treated society much as an articulate King Kong might, and wound up in the killing embrace of a zoo gorilla. As played by Louis Wolheim on the stage, the Ape thrilled audiences and even critics out of their wits. As played by William Bendix on the screen, he goes through a great many of the same motions without ever getting anywhere or meaning very much...
...late great original Quirt & Flagg, William Boyd & Louis Wolheim ("Sez you. Sez me."), the theme of the new show would seem strange. The old glory-debunking note of What Price Glory? is missing. Sergeant Quirt & Captain Flagg join up again, proceed immediately to get in Dutch by avidly pursuing their general's wife. Typical dialogue: "Lady, if I was to know every girl who goes riding with me I could make a fortune selling it to Sears, Roebuck as a mailing list...
...daughter act in a college show with Joel. Wood watched McCrae more than he did his daughter. Though a student of public elocution, Joel didn't get a chance to talk much in the talkies until he was cast in an Alaskan hunting story with the late Louis Wolheim. Talking and acting an outdoors man were two things Joel could do well...
Died. William Boyd, 45, saturnine stage and cinema actor (not to be confused with William ["Bill"] Boyd, younger film actor); of gastric hemorrhage, in Los Angeles. His most famed role: as Sergeant Quirt opposite the late Louis Wolheim's Captain Flagg in What Price Glory...