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Elmer Rice (b. Elmer L. Reizenstein, September 28, 1892, New York, New York; d. May 8, 1967, Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK) was an early 20th century American playwright. He was married to actress Betty Field. Image File history File links Elmer_Rice. ...
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Photographic self-portrait by Carl Van Vechten, 1934 Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964) was an American writer and photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. ...
September 28 is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ...
May 8 is the 128th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (129th in leap years). ...
1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ...
(19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999...
Template:Unsourced A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is someone who writes dramatic literature or drama. ...
Actress Betty Field (1947) photo taken by Carl Van Vechten Betty Field (February 8, 1913 - September 13, 1973) was an American film and stage actress. ...
American dramatist whose first play, the melodramatic On Trial (1914) , was the first Americam stage production to employ the flashback technique of the screen. His first major contribution to the theatre, however, was the expressionistic The Adding Machine (1923), which satirized the growing regimentation of man in the machine age through the life and death of the arid book-keeper, Mr. Zero. Rice's next play, Street Scene (1929), later the subject of an opera by Kurt Weill, won the Pulitzer Prize for its realistic chronicle of life in the slums. The Left Bank (1931), described expatriation from America as an ineffectual escape from materialism, and Counsellor-at-Law (also 1931) drew a realistic picture of the legal profession for which Rice had been trained. The depression of the 1930s inspired We, the People (1933), the Reichstag trial was paralleled in Judgement Day (1934), and conflicting American and Soviet ideologies formed the subject of the conversation-piece Between Two Worlds (also 1934). When these plays failed their author retired from the theatre, but returned to Broadway in 1937 to write and direct for the Playwrights' Producing Company, which he helped to establish. Of his later plays, the most successful was the fantasy Dream Girl (1945), in which an over-imaginative girl encounters unexpected romance in reality. Rice's last play was Cue for Passion (1958), a modern psycho-analytical variation of the Hamlet theme in which Diana Wynyard played the Gertrude-like character, Grace Nicholson. Rice was the author of a controversial book on American drama, The Living Theatre (1960), and of an autobiography, Minority Report (1964).
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Hatcher Hughes (February 12, 1881, Polkville, North Carolina - October 19, 1945, New York, New York) was an American playwright. ...
The Adding Machine was a 1923 play by Elmer Rice, and is generally considered to be the first American Expressionist play. ...
Street Scene is a play by Elmer Rice, which opened at the Playhouse Theatre in New York City on January 10, 1929 and ran for a total of 601 performances. ...
The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first awarded in 1918. ...
Dream Girl is a play by Elmer Rice. ...
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