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Famous American Plays of the 1920 - PORGY, HOLIDAY, WHAT PRICE GLORY? ...and more
Famous American Plays of the 1920 PORGY HOLIDAY WHAT PRICE GLORY and more Author:Eugene O'Neill, Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings, Sidney Howard, Dubose and Dorothy Heyward, Elmer Rice, Philip Barry Selected and Introduced by KENNETH MACGOWAN Six famous plays from 1920-1929. These plays are: — THE MOON OF THE CARIBBEES — A brooding one-act drama of melancholy and revelry aboard a tramp steamer on a tropic night. — WHAT PRICE GLORY? — A ribald, violent, ironic portrayal of American soldiers in World War I. — THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED — The poignant story of a California winegrower, his you... more »ng bride and a hired hand, later produced on Broadway as The Most Happy Fella.
PORGY
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
A realistic dramatization of tenement life in New York, also successful in a musical version, with a score by Kurt Weill.
HOLIDAY
A bright upper-class comedy about a rich girl, her rebellious sister, and a suitor from another world.« less