"Before Breakfast" with inscription to Bob Sis

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O’Neill, Eugene. 1915. "Before Breakfast" With Inscription to Bob Sis. eOneill.Com: An Electronic Eugene O’Neill Archive. Frank Shay, The Assembled Playwright: Harley Hammerman's Eugene O'Neill Collection, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/assembled-playwright/item/48497

Title: "Before Breakfast" with inscription to Bob Sis
Description: O'Neill appeared in three of the Provincetown Players productions of his own works. In "Before Breakfast", he was the off-stage husband, an invisible character whose arm is seen reaching through an open door for a bowl of shaving water.
Creator: O'Neill, Eugene
Date: 1916
Subject: O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953 Before breakfast New York: F. Shay; 1916
Place: New York
Publisher: Frank Shay
Source: Harley Hammerman Collection on Eugene O’Neill; PS3529.N5 B34 1916b
Format: Book
Identifier: oneill-beforebreakfast-5421185-001.jpg
Relation: eOneill.com: An Electronic Eugene O’Neill Archive