Elmer Rice
Description
American playwright, director, and novelist
Books
Minority report
Cue for passion
A play on the Hamlet theme, with the setting in Southern California.
Flight to the west
In a Trans-Atlantic Clipper the author assembles a cross-section of the warring elements of Europe and American. Through the characters the script comes to grips with the problems of espionage, appeasement and the persecution of minorities.--Dramatist Play Service.
We, the people
Counsellor-at-law
High-powered attorney George Simon frantically juggles the scandals, crimes, and crises that pass through the chrome-and-glass doors of his art deco office high in the Empire State Building. Balanced on an ethical tightrope, Simon engages in insider trading and bleeds funds from wealthy clients, while tending to the needs of the less fortunate New Yorkers who come from his own working-class background. A political enemy uncovers a past legal indiscretion and begins disbarment proceedings, causing Simon's socialite wife to seek comfort in the arms of another man. With the unflagging support of his faithful secretary, Simon attempts to exercise his legalistic wizardry to defend his reputation and protect those who rely upon him for justice.
Three Plays
Judgment Day
"'Gilbert's poems are beautifully situated at the intersection of craft and feeling.'-- Billy Collins In this rapacious world, we eat or are eaten--so poet-critic Sandra M. Gilbert suggests throughout Judgment Day, her tenth collection of poems. Tracing this theme through the range of histories that make us who we are--private, public, religious, artistic, even culinary--Gilbert meditates on recent events as well as the sacred turnings of time, great works of graphic art, and the personal crises that continually reshape our lives. Bringing together physical and metaphysical, elegy and celebration, Judgment Day is rich with Gilbert's signature grace and insight"--
Seven plays
Famous Plays of Crime and Detection
Sherlock Holmes, by William Gillette. Within the law, by Bayard Veiller. Seven keys to Baldpate, by G.M. Cohan. On trial, by Elmer Rice. Under cover, by R.C. Megrue. The thirteenth chair, by Bayard Veiller. The cat and the canary, by John Willard. The bat, by Mary R. Rinehart and Avery Hopwood. Broadway, by Philip Dunning and George Abbott. Payment deferred, by Jeffrey Dell. Kind lady, by Edward Chodorov. Night must fall, by Emlyn Williams. Angel Street, by Patrick Hamilton.