O'Neill's Other Daughter

Legends are vulnerable to revision. The stories about the summer of 1916 in the tiny fishing village of Provincetown on Cape Cod when a bunch of radical intellectuals invaded, much to the chagrin of the Puritanical locals, are legendary. So many books, articles, and movies, such as Reds, have dissected what happened that summer and yet what if one story escaped their scrutiny? Everyone knows about the passionate love triangle formed by Jack Reed, Louise Bryant and Eugene O'Neil. But what if that drunken, randy, amoral womanizer Gene took to his bed in a tumbledown fishing shack a pretty British teenager summering there with her aristocratic parents and planted a new little O'Neill in her womb? How did that juicy tidbit escape the eagle eyes of writers and historians, you ask. This is the story as told to me by an elegant British woman who claimed to be O'Neill's other daughter.