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84-508: O'Neill began work on it as early as 1923 and developed its scenario in 1925; he wrote the play between May 1926 and the summer of 1927, and completed its text for publication in January 1928, during the final rehearsals for its premiere performance. Strange Interlude opened on Broadway on January 30, 1928, with Lynn Fontanne in the central role of Nina Leeds. It was also produced in London at

168-438: A cage of twisted steel … no wonder she broke down … Mother said she's become quite queer lately … Mother seemed jealous of my concern … why have I never fallen in love with Nina? … could I? … that way … used to dance her on my knee … sit her on my lap … even now she'd never think anything about it … but sometimes the scent of her hair and skin … like a dreamy drug … dreamy! … there's the rub! … all dreams with me! … my sex life among

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336-550: A double responsibility to do so: to ensure that playwrights had their works presented to as many people as possible, and to allow people outside New York to see Broadway productions. Fontanne and Lunt had been close friends of the English actor and playwright Noël Coward since they met in New York in 1921, before any of them had achieved success in the theatre. They had resolved then that when they were famous, Coward would write

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504-552: A horrifying secret known only to Sam's mother: insanity runs in the Evans family and could be inherited by any child of Sam's. Realizing that a child is essential to her own and to Sam's happiness, Nina decides on a "scientific" solution. She will abort Sam's child and conceive a child with the physician Ned Darrell, letting Sam believe that it is his. The plan backfires when Nina and Ned's intimacy leads to their falling passionately in love. Twenty years later, Sam and Nina's son Gordon Evans

588-414: A long soliloquy by the writer Charles Marsden (whom Nina Leeds patronizingly dubs “Dear Old Charlie”). In this monologue, Marsden lays bare his ambiguous passion for Nina and his own conflicted attitude toward sex: ( then self-reassuringly ) but there is a public to cherish them, evidently … and I can write! … more than one can say of these modern sex-yahoos! … I must start work tomorrow … I'd like to use

672-668: A lot … and, by God, I'm going to see to it their marriage goes through on schedule, no matter how much Nina kicks up! … (Quotes from the text of Strange Interlude at Project Gutenberg .) Produced by the Theatre Guild , Strange Interlude opened January 30, 1928, at the John Golden Theatre . The original production was directed by Philip Moeller with settings by Jo Mielziner . The nine-act drama ran five hours, beginning at 5:15 p.m., breaking for dinner at 7:40 p.m., and resuming at 9 p.m. Five members of

756-498: A play for all three of them to star in. The Lunts' marriage was the subject of much conjecture in theatrical circles: although they were clearly devoted to each other, there were unsubstantiated but persistent rumours that Lunt was bisexual and had gay liaisons; there was also speculation that Fontanne had extramarital interests. Against this background, Coward wrote a comedy for the three of them, Design for Living (1932) , in which Fontanne's character switches back and forth between

840-415: A resentful look down at her as he moves back to the rail ) MADELINE--( with the calm confidence of one who knows ) Yes, you can bank on Gordon never losing his nerve. NINA--( coldly ) I'm quite aware my son isn't a weakling--( meaningly, with a glance at Madeline ) even though he does do weak things sometimes. MADELINE--( without lowering the glasses from her eyes--thinking good-naturedly ) Ouch! … that

924-453: A scene set when Gordon Evans is 11 years old), and allows the actors to speak their soliloquies naturally in the manner of the stage production. It was broadcast in the U.S. as part of the PBS series American Playhouse . Lynn Fontanne Lynn Fontanne ( / f ɒ n ˈ t æ n / ; 6 December 1887 – 30 July 1983) was an English actress. After early success in supporting roles in

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1008-659: A three to 3.5-hour running time that can be accommodated in a normal, if lengthy, evening performance. Notable recent productions include the 1985 London and Broadway revival starring Glenda Jackson (also adapted for television — see below), a 2012 production at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., and a 2013 production at the National Theatre London, starring Anne-Marie Duff . In 2017 actor David Greenspan revived

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1176-401: Is approaching manhood, with only Nina and Ned aware of the boy's true parentage. In the final act, Sam dies of a stroke without learning the truth. This leaves Nina free to marry Ned Darrell, but she declines, choosing instead to marry the long-suffering Charlie Marsden, who proclaims that he now has "all the luck at last." The meaning of the title is suggested by the aging Nina in a speech near

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1344-534: Is certainly no giant intellect … overgrown boy … likable quality though … EVANS--( uneasy under Marsden's eyes ) Giving me the once-over … seems like good egg … Nina says he is … suppose I ought to say something about his books, but I can't even remember a title of one … ( He suddenly blurts out ) You've known Nina--Miss Leeds--ever since she was a kid, haven't you? MARSDEN--( a bit shortly ) Yes. How long have you known her? Later in Act Two, Dr. Ned Darrell, who

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1512-476: Is treating Nina for nervous disorders, arrives, and he and Marsden size each other up: DARRELL--( turning to Marsden ) It's for Nina. She's got to get some sleep tonight. ( He sits down abruptly in the chair at center. Marsden unconsciously takes the Professor's place behind the table. The two men stare at each other for a moment, Darrell with a frank probing, examining look that ruffles Marsden and makes him all

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1680-536: The Internet . Hart believed one day the general public would be able to access computers and decided to make works of literature available in electronic form for free. He used a copy of the United States Declaration of Independence in his backpack, and this became the first Project Gutenberg e-text . He named the project for Johannes Gutenberg , the fifteenth century German printer who propelled

1764-593: The Lyric Theatre in 1931. It was included in Burns Mantle 's The Best Plays of 1927-1928 . Because of its length, around five to six hours if uncut, the play has sometimes been produced with a dinner break or on consecutive evenings. The play's themes – a woman's sexual affairs, mental illness, abortion, and deception over paternity – were controversial in the 1920s. It was censored or banned in many cities outside New York. The plot centers on Nina Leeds,

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1848-746: The West End , she met the American actor Alfred Lunt , whom she married in 1922 and with whom she co-starred in Broadway and West End productions over the next four decades. They became known as "The Lunts", and were celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic. Fontanne was born in what is now the London suburb of Woodford , and received her first training as an actress from Ellen Terry . After building up an acting career in Britain she worked extensively in

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2016-1064: The pantomime , Cinderella , and subsequently "walked on" (i.e. was a non-speaking extra) in productions in London starring Lewis Waller , Sir Herbert Tree , Lena Ashwell and others. During 1909, she toured as Rose in Lady Frederick with Mabel Love . At the Garrick Theatre , London, in December 1909 she appeared in Where Children Rule , and in Billy's Bargain at the same theatre in June 1910 she played Lady Mulberry. She then made her first visit to America, making her début in New York at Nazimova's 39th Street Theatre in November 1910 as Harriet Budgeon in Mr Preedy and

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2184-706: The 1940s, notably on the Theatre Guild programme. Many of these broadcasts still survive. In September 1964 Lunt and Fontanne were presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon Johnson at a White House ceremony. Like Lunt, Fontanne was a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame . She received a Kennedy Center Honor for the Performing Arts in 1980. She received no official British honour, which

2268-510: The 1950s and 1960s with both Lunt and Fontanne winning Emmy Awards in 1965 for The Magnificent Yankee . She narrated a 1960 television production of Peter Pan starring Mary Martin and received a second Emmy nomination for playing Grand Duchess Marie in the Hallmark Hall of Fame telecast of Anastasia in 1967, two of the few productions in which she appeared without her husband. The Lunts also starred in several radio dramas in

2352-792: The Countess with Weedon Grossmith . After returning to London in 1911 she played at the Criterion Theatre in The Young Lady of Seventeen and at the Vaudeville in A Storm in a Tea Shop . She then toured in the provinces in 1912–13 as Gertrude Rhead in Arnold Bennett and Edward Knoblock 's Milestones , before playing the part in London. In that role she had to play the same character in youth, middle age and old age. The American star Laurette Taylor saw her in

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2604-482: The Guild was an untypically frothy comedy, Caprice . The biographer Margot Peters calls the production a milestone in their careers for two reasons: it was the first production in which they, rather than the play, were the main draw, and it marked the start of their inseparable theatrical partnership: from then on they always appeared together. They took Caprice to London in 1930 – Lunt's first appearance there – and won

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2688-435: The Professor in a novel sometime … and his wife … seems impossible she's been dead six years … so aggressively his wife! … poor Professor! now it's Nina who bosses him … but that's different … she has bossed me, too, ever since she was a baby … she's a woman now … known love and death … Gordon brought down in flames … two days before the armistice … what fiendish irony! … his wonderful athlete's body … her lover … charred bones in

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2856-561: The US, first appearing in New York in 1910. Although she appeared in classics including The Taming of the Shrew and The Seagull , experimental drama by Eugene O'Neill , and dark comedy by Friedrich Dürrenmatt , Fontanne and her husband were best known for their stylish performances in light comedies by Noël Coward , S. N. Behrman , Terence Rattigan and others, and romantic plays by writers such as Robert E. Sherwood . The Lunts retired from

2940-474: The US, where in 1921 she had her first big success, in the lead role of George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly 's comedy Dulcy . She did not return to the West End for nine years. In May 1922 Fontanne married Lunt, and in 1923 they made their first appearance together in a Broadway production, a revival of Paul Kester 's 1900 costume drama Sweet Nell of Old Drury . Although Taylor was the female lead, it

3024-647: The Vatican is to Catholics". They gave up their usual summer break there during the latter part of the Second World War , because at Fontanne's behest the couple moved to England. She felt she should share the hardships of her family and friends there, and from 1943 to 1945 the Lunts appeared in the West End, and in performances for the troops, including a tour of army camps in France and Germany in 1945. After

3108-480: The actor Alfred Lunt . They fell in love, although at first Lunt's wooing was more hesitant than Fontanne would have wished. In mid-1920 Fontanne appeared once again in the West End , appearing with Taylor in a play by Manners, One Night in Rome. She had little chance to shine in what The Stage called "a one-part play" written as a vehicle for Taylor. Wanting to be reunited with Lunt, Fontanne quickly returned to

3192-551: The admiration of audiences, critics, and writers including Shaw and J. B. Priestley . For the Guild in New York, Fontanne and Lunt starred in Robert Sherwood's romantic comedy Reunion in Vienna which opened in November 1931 and ran throughout the season, before a nationwide tour. The two were strong believers in touring, taking many of their Broadway hits to remote locations as well as the larger American cities. They felt

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3360-770: The couple appeared for the Guild was Ferenc Molnár 's The Guardsman, in which they established a reputation for playing light comedy. They acted together in three plays by Bernard Shaw : Arms and the Man (as Raina and Bluntschli, 1925), Pygmalion (as Eliza and Higgins, 1926) and The Doctor's Dilemma (as the Dubedats, 1927). Fontanne had the chance to demonstrate her versatility by switching from comedy to demanding experimental drama in Eugene O'Neill 's Strange Interlude (1928), described by Woolcott as "the Abie's Irish Rose of

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3528-520: The daughter of a classics professor at a college in New England, who is devastated when her adored fiancé is killed in World War I, before they have a chance to consummate their passion. Ignoring the unconditional love of the novelist Charles Marsden, Nina embarks on a series of sordid affairs before determining to marry an amiable fool, Sam Evans. While Nina is pregnant with Sam's child, she learns

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3696-574: The end of the play: "Our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electrical display of God the Father!" Many who have never read Strange Interlude or seen it performed will nevertheless associate the title with the unusual soliloquy technique employed by O’Neill to delve into his characters’ psychology. Throughout the play, the characters alternate their spoken dialogue with monologues and side comments, many in stream-of-consciousness style, expressing their unspoken thoughts. The play begins with

3780-604: The fact that her beloved son Gordon is now a grown man with a fiancée, Madeline: NINA--( thinking--bitterly ) Young eyes! … they look into Gordon's eyes! … he sees love in her young eyes! … mine are old now! … EVANS--( pulling out his watch ) Soon be time for the start. ( comes forward--exasperatedly ) Of course, the damned radio has to pick out this time to go dead! Brand new one I had installed especially for this race, too! Just my luck! ( coming to Nina and putting his hand on her shoulder ) Gosh, I'll bet Gordon's some keyed-up right at this moment, Nina! MADELINE--( without lowering

3864-402: The fishy, diagnosing eye they practice at medical school … like freshmen from Ioway cultivating broad A's at Harvard! … what is his specialty? … neurologist, I think … I hope not psychoanalyst … a lot to account for, Herr Freud! … punishment to fit his crimes, be forced to listen eternally during breakfast while innumerable plain ones tell him dreams about snakes … pah, what an easy cure-all! … sex

3948-413: The glasses ) Poor kid! I'll bet he is! NINA--( thinking with intense bitterness ) That tone in her voice! … her love already possesses him! … my son! … ( vindictively ) But she won't! … as long as I live! … ( flatly ) Yes, he must be nervous. EVANS--( taking his hand away, sharply ) I didn't mean nervous. He doesn't know what it is to have nerves. Nothing's ever got him rattled yet. ( this last with

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4284-455: The latter throughout the US. They returned to England in 1952 for their third and final Coward premiere, Quadrille , a romantic comedy set in the 1870s. After a West End run of 329 performances they took the play to Broadway in 1954, where it ran for 159 performances; it could have profitably run for longer, but the Lunts chose to close in March 1955. Fontanne and Lunt's last Broadway premiere

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4368-780: The mass availability of books and other text. Michael S. Hart began Project Gutenberg in 1971 with the digitization of the United States Declaration of Independence . Hart, a student at the University of Illinois , obtained access to a Xerox Sigma V mainframe computer in the university's Materials Research Lab. Through friendly operators, he received an account with a virtually unlimited amount of computer time ; its value at that time has since been variously estimated at $ 100,000 or $ 100,000,000. Hart explained he wanted to "give back" this gift by doing something one could consider to be of great value. His initial goal

4452-439: The more resentful toward him. ) This Marsden doesn't like me … that's evident … but he interests me … read his books … wanted to know his bearing on Nina's case … his novels just well-written surface … no depth, no digging underneath … why? … has the talent but doesn't dare … afraid he'll meet himself somewhere … one of those poor devils who spend their lives trying not to discover which sex they belong to! … MARSDEN-- Giving me

4536-409: The original cast – Powers, Helen Westley, Burns, Ethel Westley, and Walters – were still with the play when the production reached its first anniversary, and they had not missed a single performance. Powers was compelled to leave the cast at the end of March 1929 due to exhaustion. The original Broadway production ran 17 months. Recent revivals of Strange Interlude have mostly edited the text to allow

4620-427: The phantoms! … ( He grins torturedly. ) Why? … oh, this digging in gets nowhere … to the devil with sex! … our impotent pose of today to beat the loud drum on fornication! … boasters … eunuchs parading with the phallus! … giving themselves away … whom do they fool? … not even themselves! … In Act Two, Marsden is introduced to Sam Evans, who will eventually marry Nina: MARSDEN--( studying him keenly--amused ) This

4704-416: The philosopher's stone … "O Oedipus, O my king! The world is adopting you!" … DARRELL-- Must pitch into him about Nina … have to have his help … damn little time to convince him … he's the kind you have to explode a bomb under to get them to move … but not too big a bomb … they blow to pieces easily … In Act Eight, set during a rowing competition twenty years later, Nina has difficulty coming to terms with

4788-899: The piece at the Golders Green Hippodrome in November they retired from the stage. Lunt died on 3 August 1977. Fontanne died at Genesee Depot on 30 July 1983, aged 95, from pneumonia , and was interred next to her husband at Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee , Wisconsin. Fontanne, like her husband, disliked acting for the camera and she made only four films. She appeared in the silent films Second Youth (1924) and The Man Who Found Himself (1925). For The Guardsman (1931) she and Lunt were both nominated for Academy Awards . She and Lunt were in Stage Door Canteen (1943) in which they had cameos as themselves. The two starred in four television productions in

4872-576: The piece. The Times commented: For the rest of the 1930s Fontanne and her husband appeared in Guild productions. In 1935 they played Katherina and Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew ; in 1936 they starred in a new Sherwood play, Idiot's Delight ; in 1937 they took the leading roles in S. N. Behrman 's adaptation of Jean Giraudoux 's comedy Amphitryon 38 ; and in 1938 they played Arkadina and Trigorin in The Seagull on Broadway and took

4956-472: The platitude,      Queen of all the old ones.      You, at last, are something new      'Neath the theatre's dome. I'd      Mention to the cosmos, you      Swing a wicked bromide. ... Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg ( PG ) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage

5040-776: The play as a six-hour solo show at the Irondale Center in Brooklyn . Strange Interlude was adapted by Hollywood only once, in 1932. The MGM film , which starred Norma Shearer as Nina Leeds and Clark Gable as Dr. Ned Darrell, was a shortened and toned-down version of the play. Voiceovers were used for the soliloquies. A 1963 Actors Studio production directed by Jose Quintero was issued by Columbia Masterworks Records in 1964. The company included Betty Field , Jane Fonda , Rip Torn replacing Ben Gazzara , Pat Hingle , Geoffrey Horne , Geraldine Page , William Prince , Franchot Tone , and Richard Thomas . The album set

5124-532: The play in Britain in 1957–58, initially under the title Time and Again , in a production directed by Peter Brook . In May 1958 they opened the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York with the same play (by then renamed The Visit ) and toured it in the US. In June 1960, in Brook's production, they opened the new Royalty Theatre , London in June 1960, running until 19 October. After a final week playing

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5208-479: The production of Amphitryon 38 to London, before touring it extensively in the US in repertory with Idiot's Delight and The Seagull . The Lunts had a country estate in Genesee Depot , Wisconsin, close to where Lunt had grown up. It was their summer home, where they entertained a great many theatrical friends and colleagues over the decades. Carol Channing later said "Genesee Depot is to performers what

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5460-535: The pseudo-intelligentsia". Fontanne and Lunt introduced a naturalistic new way of delivering dialogue, building on a technique Fontanne had begun to explore in her performances with Laurette Taylor. It was unheard of for an actor to speak while another was still speaking, but, in Brown's words: As a consequence, according to Brown, the Lunts' scenes together could be "more vivid, more real than those of other actors". In 1928, Fontanne and Lunt co-starred in what for

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5628-791: The role and was impressed. At the Royalty Theatre in April 1914 Fontanne scored a success as Liza and Mrs Collison in Knoblock's My Lady's Dress . She played in four other London productions in 1914–15, including the premiere of The Starlight Express . She became engaged to marry a young lawyer, Teddy Byrne, but he was killed in action in 1916 during the First World War . Shortly before Byrne's death, Fontanne accepted an offer to join Laurette Taylor's company in New York. Taylor and her husband, Hartley Manners , fostered

5712-459: The stage in 1960, and lived at their home in Genesee Depot , Wisconsin, where, after outliving her husband by six years, Fontanne died at the age of 95. Fontanne was born Lillie Louise Fontanne in Woodford , Essex (now London), on 6 December 1887. She was the youngest of the three daughters of Jules Pierre Antoine Fontanne (1855–1942) and his wife Frances Ellen, née Thornley (1858–1921). She

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5880-475: The two men, who then pair up when she deserts them both, before all three end up together. The combination of the risqué subject and the popularity of the three stars caused box-office records to be broken, and reportedly earned Fontanne and her co-stars the highest salaries paid on Broadway to that time. The immense success of Design for Living led Coward to write another play for his friends, but his Point Valaine , in which Fontanne and Lunt starred in 1934,

5964-433: The volume of e-texts increased, volunteers began to take over the project's day-to-day operations that Hart had run. Italian volunteer Pietro Di Miceli developed and administered the first Project Gutenberg website and started the development of the Project online Catalog. In his ten years in this role (1994–2004), the Project web pages won a number of awards, often being featured in "best of the Web" listings, contributing to

6048-483: The war Fontanne and Lunt returned to the US and resumed their association with the Theatre Guild. They appeared in 1946–47 in Terence Rattigan 's comedy Love In Idleness (given on Broadway under the title O Mistress Mine ), and in 1949–50 in I Know My Love , Berhman's adaptation of Auprès de ma blonde by Marcel Achard ; these productions ran for 482 and 247 performances respectively. The Lunts toured

6132-576: The young Fontanne's career. Taylor later said, "While acting with her I forgot we were actresses". After five plays with them, Fontanne graduated to leading roles for other managements. Between 1918 and 1920, she succeeded Laura Hope Crews as Mrs Rockingham in "A Pair of Petticoats" in New York, and was the female lead in new plays on Broadway and in Chicago and Philadelphia . During this time, playing in summer stock in Washington DC, she met

6216-441: Was Fontanne who impressed the critics. In The New York Herald , Alexander Woolcott dismissed the play as "gaudy rubbish", but added: In 1924, the Lunts joined the company of the Theatre Guild , which, in the words of Fontanne's biographer Jared Brown, "staged plays on Broadway but defied Broadway conventions by offering serious and innovative plays that were regularly rejected by commercial managements". The first play in which

6300-558: Was a failure. Coward set out to write an uncharacteristically serious drama, but the grim plot and unsympathetic characters did not appeal to audiences used to seeing the Lunts in glamorous and romantic roles; Fontanne's prediction that the play would only run for a matter of weeks proved correct. It was the only outright failure of the Lunts' joint career. Between the two Coward plays in New York, Fontanne and Lunt played in London, in Reunion in Vienna , repeating their American success with

6384-540: Was a matter of mild regret as she would have liked to be Dame Lynn Fontanne: "They thought I was American. But I was always British. I would have cherished the award". When she was 90 she received a standing ovation when she attended a performance of Hello, Dolly! at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.       Dulcy , take our gratitude      All your words are gold ones.      Mistress of

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6720-472: Was educated in London, after which a family friend introduced her to the leading actress Ellen Terry , who sometimes gave lessons to promising young players. Partly as a result of Terry’s training and influence, Fontanne was given roles in plays in London and on tour throughout England from 1905 to 1916. She made her first appearance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane , at Christmas 1905, in the chorus of

6804-484: Was five LPs and was nominated for a Grammy in the category Best Documentary, Spoken Word Or Drama Recording (other Than Comedy). A 1988 television version directed by Herbert Wise was based on a 1985 London stage revival and starred Edward Petherbridge as Charles, Glenda Jackson as Nina, and David Dukes as Ned (with Kenneth Branagh in the small part of Gordon Evans). This version follows O'Neill's original text fairly closely (except that it eliminates most of Act 7,

6888-489: Was in Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse 's "melodramatic comedy" The Great Sebastians in 1956. After a six-month run in New York they toured the piece throughout the US. Their final production was in 1957: The Visit , Maurice Valency 's adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt 's Der Besuch der alten Dame , in which a rich old woman exacts a terrible revenge on the man who betrayed her fifty years earlier. They toured

6972-542: Was meant for me! … ( then hurt ) Why does she dislike me so? … I've done my best, for Gordon's sake, to be nice to her… EVANS--( looking back at Nina resentfully--thinking ) Another nasty crack at Madeline! … Nina's certainly become the prize bum sport! … I thought once her change of life was over she'd be ashamed of her crazy jealousy … instead of that it's got worse … but I'm not going to let her come between Gordon and Madeline … he loves her and she loves him … and her folks have got money and position, too … and I like her

7056-437: Was to make the 10,000 most consulted books available to the public at little or no charge by the end of the 20th century. On July 4, 1971, after being inspired by a free printed copy of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, he decided to type the text into a computer, and to transmit it to other users on the computer network. This particular computer was one of the 15 nodes on ARPANET , the computer network that would become

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