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Poppa

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  5w, 10m

This comedy centers around a Jewish family named Schwitzky, and concerns itself chiefly with the rise and fall and rise again of Pincus, head of the family. He becomes an Alderman but is "framed" by the district leader when he tries to be a reformer. The family honor is saved through a dictograph…

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    5w, 10m

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This comedy centers around a Jewish family named Schwitzky, and concerns itself chiefly with the rise and fall and rise again of Pincus, head of the family. He becomes an Alderman but is "framed" by the district leader when he tries to be a reformer. The family honor is saved through a dictograph which Pincus's scatter-brained, good-for-nothing son Herbert had placed in the living room. Bound up with the theme is a very interesting love story.

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Samuel Spewack

Samuel Spewack (1899-1971) and Bella Spewack (1899-1990) met while working as journalists and married in 1922. Bella’s youth was chronicled in Streets: A Memoir of the Lower East Side (1995, Feminist Press). Their first play, Solitaire Man, premiered in 1926. Clear All Wires ...

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Bella Spewack

Bella Spewack (1899-1990) and Samuel Spewack (1899-1971) met while working as journalists and married in 1922. Bella’s youth was chronicled in Streets: A Memoir of the Lower East Side (1995, Feminist Press). Their first play, Solitaire Man, premiered in 1926. Clear All Wires ...

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