Round 1: Tossup 15

In a play by this author, a man makes a woman swear on his mother’s crucifix, then panics because she isn’t Catholic. In the Zone is one of four one-act (15[1])plays that this author set on the S.S. Glencairn. One of this author’s characters often adopts the pose of Rodin’s The Thinker and (15[1])spends a night in the Battery (15[1])before a stage instruction about his death notes that he “at last belongs.” A film with the tagline (*) “Garbo talks!” adapts a play by this author whose protagonist defies her estranged Swedish father by eloping with the shipwreck survivor Matt Burke. In a play by this author, the steel heiress Mildred Douglas exclaims “oh, the filthy beast!” upon seeing the coal stoker Yank, who is later crushed to death at the zoo by a gorilla. For 10 points, name this playwright of Anna Christie and The Hairy Ape. ■END■

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