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Full-Length Play, Comedy / 5w, 7m
Elmer Rice
As the curtain rises, a theatrical manager about to present a play announces that he has engaged a couple of highbrow lecturers to explain it to the audience. Or, in Rice's own words, "A couple of end men to pull Chatauqua gags." Only one of them is a woman. They proceed to expound Rice's philosophy…
Elmer Rice (born Sept. 28, 1892, New York City—died May 8, 1967, Southampton, Hampshire, Eng.) was an American playwright, director, and novelist noted for his innovative and polemical plays. Rice graduated from the New York Law School in 1912 but soon turned to writing plays ...