Shouts and Murmurs

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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


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