Elmer Rice (Critical Survey of Drama)
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Elmer Rice was a versatile and prolific writer. He was not only a serious dramatist, with more than thirty published plays to his credit at the time of his death, but also a novelist of some skill. In 1930, he published A Voyage to Purilia, a satire on Hollywood based on his experiences there during his stint as a writer for Samuel Goldwyn shortly after World War I. In the novel, Rice satirizes the shortcomings and triteness of the movie industry. That the book was accepted for serialization in The New Yorker attests Rice’s skill as a...
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