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Spilling out of a Manhattan tenement onto a June-baked side street are all Mr. Rice's once-familiar exhibits-gossips, sluts, roughnecks, a dispossessed family, a jittery expectant father, the Negro janitor, the Italian music teacher, the Jewish law student, young Rose Maurrant whom he loves, and Rose's ill-mated parents-the mother who has taken a lover, the father who has taken to drink. Long brooding over the Maurrants, melodrama bursts upon them at last-with two quick revolver shots behind an open window...
...setting is a high-class tenement house. The story concerns all the people who live in it, but chiefly the Maurrants who give the other tenants cause for talk-derisive, frightened, sympathetic- on the dingy front stoop. Mr. Maurrant is a stage technician; his wife (Estelle Taylor) is having an affair with a bill collector. One day Maurrant comes home before he is expected, sees the shades pulled down in the window of his flat. He goes upstairs and shoots his wife and her lover. Police catch him in a cellar down the street. The Maurrants' daughter (Sylvia Sidney...
...Next morning stagehand Frank Maurrant leaves for Stamford, a show is trying out there. Mrs. Maurrant tells Sankey, her lover. He goes upstairs. The curtains are drawn. Sammy Kaplan sees Sankey go upstairs, sees the shade lowered...
...Maurrant appears, drunk. He has changed his mind about the Stamford trip. Instinctively he looks upstairs, becomes insanely enraged. Sammy tries, ineffectually, to stop Maurrant's rush to the second floor There are screams and bellowing curses. Maurrant and Sankey struggle at the window, Maurrant at Sankey 's throat. There are shots. A crowd collects at the door. Maurrant escapes. Sankey is dead. Mrs. Maurrant opens her eyes only once...
This is one of the best plays of the sea son. 'Only one other play (Wings Over Europe) is nearly so well-cast for types, but it is possible to mention more notable parts most notably played. Erin O'Brien-Moore is beautiful and restrained as Rose Maurrant. Robert Kelly is a powerful Frank Maurrant. Best of all the characterizations is Beulah Bondi's Emma Jones...