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Eugene O' Neill's Tao House |
| Section: LIFE / TRAVEL |
| Author: Margaret Shelgren |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1993 |
| Size: 2,232 Words, 13,800 Characters |
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Describing himself as one who never really felt at home, America's great playwright--be-cause of his father's stage career--had known only hotel rooms in his earliest years.
Born October 16,1888, in New York City's Barrett House (a family-style hotel in what is today's Times Square), Eugene O'Neill would rouse from a semistupor sixty-five years later. Lifting himself on his elbows, he cried, "I knew it! I knew it! Born in a hotel room and, goddamit, died in a hotel room!"
And so it happened in Boston's Hotel Shelton on November 23, 1953.
But that he was contentedly housed near San Francisco is documented at a Mediterranean-type villa built to his tastes and those of his third wife, Carlotta, a former actress. Open to view, the thirteen-acre estate known as Tao House, accesse...
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...en his last play. Never again would he experience the satisfactions his hillside retreat had offered. He came to rest under a boulder of New England granite in Boston's Forest Hills Cemetery. But his living memorial is California's Tao House. And if his spirit returns there (as Jason Robards believes), it manifests itself as the faithful mockingbird that performs a daily concert on the roof.
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