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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919. Excerpt: ... IN THE ZONE EUGENE G. O'NEILL Mr. Eugene G. O'neill was born October 16,1888, in New York City. He spent one year at Princeton University (Class of 1910), after which he became secretary of a small mail-order concern in New York City. In 1909 he joined a gold prospecting expedition to Spanish Honduras. He found no gold, but plenty of fever. The latter part of the season of 1910 he worked as an assistant manager of a theatrical company on the road, playing in all "big" towns through the Middle West. In June of that year he made his first voyage as a sailor, Boston to Buenos Aires, on a Norwegian bark which took sixty-five days to make the trip. In the Argentine he found work first in the drafting department of the Westinghouse Electrical Company in Buenos Aires, and then in the Swift Packing Company's plant at La Plata. Later he worked for the Singer Sewing Machine Company in Buenos Aires. He made his second trip to sea on a British tramp, Buenos Aires to Durban, South Africa, and return. Finally he shipped on a British tramp steamer back to New York. He did not stay in New York long, however, but signed as an able seaman--he had been an ordinary seaman before--on the S.S. New York of the American Line. The New York was later laid up in Southampton for repairs and Mr. O'Neill was transferred to the Philadelphia of the same line, on which he made his return trip. This was his last experience as a sailor. The following winter, Mr. O'Neill played a part in his father's tabloid version of "Monte Cristo" on the Orpheum vaudeville circuit in the Far West. The next summer and fall he worked as a reporter on the New London, Connecticut, Telegraph. Soon after, in 1914, he began to write. He studied the technique of the drama in Professor Baker's class at Harvard th...