Rice, Elmer (Elmer Reizenstein)
Rice, Elmer (Elmer Reizenstein)( 1892–1967),New York dramatist, producer, and novelist, graduated from the New York Law School (1912), but soon abandoned this profession for writing. His first play, On Trial (1914), was a murder mystery employing the technique of the motion-picture “cutback” to present scenes that are described by the trial witnesses. His works for the Morningside Players, a little-theater group, were published in Morningside Plays (1917). In 1923 he obtained his second success with The Adding Machine, a satirical, Expressionistic fantasy. His interest in the social aspects of life is further exhibited in the realistic play Street Scene (1929, Pulitzer Prize); We, the People (1933); Judgment Day (1934), dealing with the ideologies involved in the trials for the burning of the Reichstag building; Between Two Worlds (1934); American Landscape (1938); Two on an Island (1940);...
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