Incidental music for The adding machine [manuscript], ca. 1923.

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Incidental music for The adding machine [manuscript], ca. 1923.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/653137586

Set of manuscript orchestral parts of unattributed incidental music for Elmer Rice's 1923 play, copied in the early to mid twentieth century.

8 ms. parts ; 34 x 27 cm to 35 x 28 cm.

Folger Shakespeare Library

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Folger Shakespeare Library

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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...