Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants.
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| Birth: | 28th September, 1892 |
| Death: | 8th May, 1967 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Playwright |
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Elmer Rice was born in New York City, New York, USA. He was an American playwright. He is best known for his plays The Adding Machine and his Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of New York tenement life, Street Scene. His first work, the melodramatic On Trial, was the first play to employ on stage the motion-picture technique of flashbacks, in this case to present the recollections of witnesses at a trial. He also wrote several novels and an autobiography, Minority Report.
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