George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, co-authors of some of Broadway’s most enduringly funny comedies, also collaborated on a topical pageant, The American Way, which opened at Broadway’s Center Theater, January 1939. Pageant, not play, because of the enormous cast on an extra wide stage, but also because the approach to its subject matter—a German immigrant representing all immigrants, and his courage a…
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