Elmer Rice: Street Scene by Trav S.D.

Today is the birthday of the great American playwright Elmer Rice (Elmer Reizenstein, 1892-1967). While he wrote dozens of successful plays, Rice’s reputation today rests principally on just two: the expressionistic experiment The Adding Machine (1922), and the path-breaking urban realism tour de force Street Scene (1929). Street Scene‘s affectionate stereotyping of the various ethnicities liv…

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