EUGENE O'NEILL What moon
There tails
O'Neill actually found on the Morosco
was what people usually get who cry for
stage
the
155
—
instead of sixpence.
is
no need now
to expatiate
on the de-
of the deeply satisfying performance given
by the composite company assembled for those must be special mention of the gorgeous performance given by Louise Closser Hale as the semi-paralyzed mother-in-law who carps away at life from her wheel-chair and
special matinees but there
much lady who
regards Robert's yearnings with about as
sympathy as that intensely local old bought David Copperfied's caul, she whose motto in life was: "Let there be no meandering." It was worth going miles to see the way Mrs. Hale
made
that wheel-chair take a part in the play.
She used
it
as Mrs. Fiske uses a fan or a lorgnette,
something to brandish, something wherewith to bridle
and emphasize a thought or point a
bit of
wit.
This cast for "Beyond the Horizon" was
as-
sembled from the two companies which in the evening devoted themselves to "For the Defense"
and "The Storm." The success of the amalgam, which gave the producer almost as much freedom of choice as he needed, suggests that the double