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Today in Bookish and Literary History, December 14

#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #December14 #ElmerRice #ShayneParkinson #booksky

" #Art is meant to strike us with Reality, not allow us to hide from it."

✒ #ElmerRice, American playwright, was #BOTD 28 September 1892. #Theatre #Literature

🔴 1914 Elmer Rice's play "On Trial" premieres in NYC

It 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.

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#ComingUpOnTCM

STREET SCENE (1931) Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor
Dir.: King Vidor 3:00 AM PT

24 hours in the lives of the tenants of a tenement apartment house during a blistering heat wave.

1h 20m | Drama | TV-14

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"Art is meant to strike us with Reality, not allow us to hide from it."

✒️ #ElmerRice, American playwright (1929 Pulitzer for Landscape with Figures, Street Scene) and novelist, #DOTD 8 May 1967. #Theatre #Literature

🔴 1907 #ladygregory 's "Rising of the Moon" premieres in Dublin

🔴 1922 #eugeneonill 's "Hairy Ape" premieres in NYC

🔴 1923 #elmerrice 's play "Adding Machine" premieres in NYC

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