Before Eugene O'Neill's work first hit the Broadway stage in 1920, audiences typically came to the theater in search of amusement and distraction — and got what they were looking for.
Eugene O'Neill first experienced the American theater as a young child at the end of the 19th century, when he accompanied his stage-actor father James O'Neill touring as the lead in The Count of Monte Cristo.
Aimee Semple McPherson first encountered the contradiction between the teachings of the Bible and the theory of evolution when she was in high school.Â
The conflict between the story of the world's creation in the Book of Genesis and Charles Darwin's account of it in Origin of Species would remain a central issue in her life.Â
