Word: reizenstein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Riled by Broadway's lukewarm-to-cool appreciation of his three last plays (We, the People, Judgment Day, Between Two Worlds), testy, red-headed Elmer Rice (born Elmer Leopold Reizenstein) three years ago made a public face at all dramatic critics and declared he was "disenchanted" with Broadway for good. So far he has kept his word...
Black Sheep (written & produced by Elmer Rice [Reizenstein]). Immediately after Producer Hopkins had unpleasantly surprised theatregoers with his inept Rendezvous, along came Playwright Rice with the second major disappointment of the play week. The author of Pulitzer Prize-winning Street Scene foisted on his following a scrappy bit of nonsense dealing with a short-story writer who left his respectable home to wander over the world. When he returned it was with considerable literary kudos and a mistress. He settled into his family's comfortable life with amazing ease, took up golf, curried favor with the Press, jacked...
Counsellor-at-Law. Playwright Elmer Rice (born Reizenstein), was once a lawyer. He has now written a drama about a successful legal light named George Simon (Paul Muni). Mr. Simon, when the play begins, is sitting on top of the world but it so happens that he has a stain on his otherwise unblemished past. A kind man, he once framed testimony on behalf of a young fourth offender who would otherwise have gotten a life sentence in prison. An enemy of Lawyer Simon discovers this lapse, comes so close to ruining Lawyer Simon that Lawyer Simon is about...