Shadowed Cocktails: The Plays of Philip Barry from Paris Bound to The Philadelphia Story

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207 Index absolutes, corruptive force of, as theme in Barry’s work, 28 absurdist movement, anticipation of, 69, 71, 147 academic establishment references, in White Wings, 71–72 Acosta, Mercedes de, 106 actors and acting, in Foolish Notion, 153 Adding Machine, The (Rice), 138 Ali, George, in White Wings, 69, 180–81n. 6 Alice Adams (film), 114 allegory, in Liberty Jones, 146–47 ambiguity, in Barry’s works, 62 America, small-town, 17, 173n. 3 Ames, Hope (char., Hotel Universe), 82, 84–88 Ames, Tom (char., Hotel Universe), 82–88 Ames, Winthrop, 74 Anderson, John, on The Philadelphia Story, 122 Animal Kingdom, The (Barry), 56, 107–14 Animal Kingdom, The (film), 112, 192n. 11 Antipas (char., John), 76–77, 78 Armstrong, Anna (char., Here Come the Clowns), 99 Armstrong, Major (char., Here Come the Clowns), 96, 99, 189n. 52 art, potential linkage of evil and, 23 Arthur, Owen (char., The Animal Kingdom ), 108, 110–13 artistic boundaries, broken, in 1920s and 1930s, 5 artistic compromise, in Barry’s work, 138 artists: Barry’s focus on, 20; as benefactors, 22; challenges and compromises of, 18, 22, 138; challenges to, in In a Garden, 22; in Foolish Notion, 153; frustrated, in Holiday (film), 54; implications of success for, 22; in Second Threshold, 162; vulnerabilities of, 17; in You and I, 12–13 Astor, Caroline Schermerhorn, 106 Astor, Mary, in Holiday (film), 178n. 14 Atkinson, Brooks: on The Animal Kingdom , 110, 113–14; and Barry, xi; on Barry, 16–17, 33, 35; on Bright Star, 144; on Lillian Gish, 185n. 31; on Here Come the Clowns, 95, 187n. 41; on Holiday, 53; on Hotel Universe, 86; on John, 183nn. 18–19; on The Joyous Season, 92; on Liberty Jones, 146; on My Name Is Aquilon, 154; on Paris Bound, 35–36, 41, 44; on The Philadelphia Story, 122; on Second Threshold, 162; on Laurette Taylor, 32; on Thankful Mather character, 159; on Names of characters in plays and fiction are followed by (char.). $QGHUVRQ,QGH[LQGG $0 Index 208 Atkinson, Brooks (continued) Tomorrow and Tomorrow, 58; on White Wings, 74; on Hope Williams, 106, 175n. 2; on Without Love, 129; on Jane Wyatt, 186n. 34 Atwater, Matthew (char., Second Threshold ), 157, 160 audiences: Barry and, 137, 167–68; challenges to, in White Wings, 68–69, 71; in Cock Robin, 139–40; second-night, 31 Aumont, Jean-Pierre, 154 Aunt Gloria (Gloria Patria; char., Liberty Jones), 147–48 autobiographical references, 17, 19, 73 Ayres, Lew, 195n. 9 “Babylon Revisited” (Fitzgerald), 44 Baillie, Peter (char., Without Love), 130, 133–34 Baker, George Pierce, 9–10, 13 Ball, Lucille, in Without Love, 134 Bankhead, Tallulah, in Foolish Notion, 153 Barnes, Howard, on Foolish Notion, 152 Barry, Agnes (Sister Agnes), 1, 19, 89, 105 Barry, Edmund, 105, 143, 190–91n. 2 Barry,Ellen Semple, 10, 19, 34–35, 106, 176n. 7 Barry, James, 154–55 Barry, Philip: address to Yale Conference of Drama (1929), 9–10; ambiguity in works by, 32, 62; anticipation of war by, 130; appraising looks of, 25; artistic death-walk of, 114; artistic negotiation with the Stone Age, 9; authors and playwrights, connections to, x–xi; as chain-smoker, 184n. 24, 197n. 25; commercial successes of, 35; death of, 155, 161; dismissiveness of, in interviews, 62; early life of, 66–67; fiction and poetry by, 2; fulfilled potential of, 36; as gamester, questioner, and challenger, x, 11, 94, 139, 165–67; on home in Cannes, 193n. 20; illustration of, by Sharkey, vi, xiii; and indivisibility of life, 161; influences on, 2–4, 22–23, 27, 73; marriage to Ellen Semple, 34–35; and Murphys, 180n. 1, 187n. 89; names used by, xi, 175–76n. 3, 191; neglect of, 165; and paradox of faith, 67–68; Philistinism perceived in, 9; quests to make sense of nonsense, 4; “serious” plays by, 164; skepticism of, 66; societal focus of, 45, 56, 79; as specialist in the evanescent, 1; themes and preoccupations of, 126; unsettledness of, 167; works by, listed chronologically, 171; and zeitgeist of postwar world, 33. See also themes and preoccupations, in Barry’s work; titles of individual works Barrymore, Ethel, 185n. 31 Battle, Francis (char., The Joyous Season), 90, 93, 165 Battle, Teresa Farley (char., The Joyous Season), 90–92 Behrman, S. N., 104 Bel Geddes, Norman, 183n. 18 Ben-Ami, Jacob, in John, 183n. 19 Benchley, Robert C., 74, 166, 193–94n. 1 Benet, Stephen Vincent, 166 Benoit-Benoit, Christine (char., My Name Is Aquilon), 154–55 Benoit-Benoit, Victor (char., My Name...