Famous American Plays of the 1920s

By Kenneth Macgowan

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very good copy--1983--a dell pb--unmarked--skuo3//81 This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: B00128X4OI
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: DELL PUBL CO
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

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SIX FAMOUS PLAYS: 1920/1929 * THE MOON OF THE CARIBBEES - by Eugene O'Neill : A brooding one-act drama of melancholy and revelry aboard a tramp steamer on a tropic night. * WHAT PRICE GLORY? - by Maxwell Anderson & Laurence Stallings: A ribald, violent, ironic portrayal of American soldiers in World War I. * THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED - by Sidney Howard :The poignant story of a California winegrower, his young bride and a hired hand, later produced on Broadway as The Most Happy Fella. * PORGY - by DuBose & Dorthy Heyward : The now classic American folk drama, and the source of Porgy and Bess, which depicts the colorful and tragic lives of the Negroes on "Catfish Row" * STREET SCENE - by Elmer Rice : A realistic dramatization of tenement life in New York, also successful in a musical version, with a score by Kurt Weill. * HOLIDAY - by Philip Barry : A bright upper-class comedy about a rich girl, her rebellious sister and a suitor from another world.