Elmer Rice letter to Mrs. Brennan, 1941 April 15.

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Elmer Rice letter to Mrs. Brennan, 1941 April 15.

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Elmer Rice writes to Mrs. Brennan, 15 April 1941, on The Playwrights' Company letterhead, thanking her for her card proclaiming her enjoyment of a radio adaptation of his play Street Scene, with general praise of radio's entertainment value.

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Rice, Elmer, 1892-1967

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Dramatist Elmer Rice was born and raised in Manhattan. Working as a file clerk, he earned a high-school equivalency diploma and entered New York Law School, passing the bar exam. He quit his job with a law firm to write plays, and within eight months his play On Trial was a critical and popular success. In a career marked by success and innovation, the prolific Rice produced socially-conscious drama as well as accessible entertainment; he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929 for Street Scene. He directe...