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O'Neill, Eugene - Good Content ALS

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O'Neill, Eugene - Good Content ALS
<Our item number 110001><B>O&#39;Neill, Eugene.</B> &#40;1888-1953&#41; American playwright; four-time Pulitzer prize winner and winner of the Nobel prize for literature in 1936. Autograph Letter Signed &#34;<I>Gene</I>&#34; one page, 13&#34; x 8½&#34;, Bermuda, 3 April 1925. Very fine. To Richard Madden, his literary agent, upon hearing that the Theatre Guild had dropped its option to produce his play &#34;The Fountain.&#34; In part: &#34;…<I>Your cable about Guild - &#39;Fountain&#39; was not unexpected. I wouldn&#39;t be in too much of a hurry about tying up with Jones-Greene, not until I&#39;ve seen Kenneth</I> [MacGowan] <I>and had a talk with him, and after we&#39;ve all had a chance to reread the play. I imagine I may want to do a lot of rewriting on it….It seems to me it would be a fine part, perhaps, for Walter Hampden and that Bobby</I> [Jones], <I>Kenneth & I might make some arrangement to cooperate with him on a production, if he should fancy the part….I&#39;ve finished &#39;The Great God B rown&#39; and am having it typed. It is a &#39;lulu&#39;. I&#39;m going to start another before very long</I>….&#34;<BR><BR>Critic and producer Kenneth MacGowan and scene designer Bobby Jones were close friends and collaborators of O&#39;Neill&#39;s. In 1923 the three men formed The Experimental Theatre, Inc., a professional reorganization of the old Provincetown Players. O&#39;Neill believed that &#34;The Great God Brown&#34; was his crowning achievement to date. His daughter, Oona, who would marry Charlie Chaplin at the age of 18 and be disowned by O&#39;Neill, was born in Bermuda on May 14, only a few weeks after O&#39;Neill wrote this letter. <BR>Estimated Value &#36;2,500-3,500. <BR><BR>Our item number 110001<BR><IMAGES><P ALIGN="CENTER"><IMG SRC="http://64.60.141.195/photos/40jpegs/110001.jpg"> </P></IMAGES>