Elmer Rice: A Bibliography

ELMER RICE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY This list is arranged in chronological order, and my thanks must go to Elmer Rice for considerable help in its compilation. PART I: BOOKS On Trial, novelized by D. Torbett. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1915. (Rice's work on this novelization of his play consisted in correcting Torbett's completed MS.) "The Home of the Free," The Morningside Plays. New York: Frank Shay, 1917. (Contains an Introduction by Barrett H. Clark and three other one-act plays). "A Diadem of Snow," The Liberator. New York: Liberator Publishing Co., 1918; One-Act Plays for Stage and Study, Fifth Series. New York: Samuel French, 1929. On Trial [play]. New York: Samuel French, 1919. The Adding Machine. New York: Doubleday, Page Be Co., 1923. "The Passing of Chow-Chow," One-Act Plays for Stage and Study, Second Series. New York: Samuel French, 1925. Wake Up, jonathan, with Hatcher Hughes. New York: Samuel French, 1928. Wir in Amerika, translated by Heinrich B. Kranz. Berlin: Chronos-Verlag, ca. 1928. (This is the only publication of Rice's three-act comedy Life is Real.) Cock Robin, with Philip Barry. New York: Samuel French, 1929. Close Harmony, or The Lady Next Door, with Dorothy Parker. New York: Samuel French, 1929. Street Scene. New York: Samuel French, 1929. The Subway. New York: Samuel French, 1929. See Naples and Die. New York: Samuel French, 1930. A Voyage to Purilia [novel]. New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1930; also as a serial in The New Yorker from the issue of October 12, 1929 to that of December 21, 1929. The Left Bank. New York: Samuel French, 1931. Counsellor-at-Law. New York: Samuel French, 1931. The House in Blind Alley. New York: Samuel French, 1932. We, the People. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1933. "The Gay White Way," One-Act Plays for Stage and Study, Eighth Series. New York: Samuel French, 1934; The New Yorker, IV (October 27, 1928). judgment Day. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1934. Three Plays Without Words. New York: Samuel French, 1934. Two Plays: Not for Children and Between Two Worlds. New York: CowardMcCann , Inc., 1935. (Contains an important Introduction.) Imperial City [novel]. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1937. Black Sheep. New York: Dramatists' Play Service, Inc., 1938. American Landscape. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 19'39. Two on an Island. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1940. Flight to the West. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1941. A New Life. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1944. Dream Girl. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1946. The Show Must Go On [novel]. New York: The Viking Press, 1949. Seven Plays. New York: The Viking Press, 1950. (Contains On Trial, The Adding Machine, Street Scene, Counsellor-at-Law, judgment Day, Two on an Island and Dream Girl.) The Grand Tour. New York: The Dramatists' Play Service, 1952. The Winner. New York: The Dramatists' Play Service, 1954. Cue for Passion. New York: The Dramatists' Play Service, 1959. The Living Theatre [essays]. New York: Harper and Bros., 1959. Minority Report: An Autobiography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963. Love among the Ruins. New York: Dramatists' Play Service, 1963. (There have also been foreign editions, translations, inclusions in anthologies, and reprints of the above works, too numerous to mention.) 440 1966 ELMER RICE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY 441 PART II: E$AYS, STORIES, LE'ITERS, ETC. "Out of the Movies [story]," Argosy, XXXII (May, 1913), 44°-444. (Rice's first published work. In Minority Report, p. 94, he incorrectly gives the title as "The Fires of Thespis".) "Some Lame and Impotent Conclusions," New York Times, VII (April 11, 1915), 6. "The Public Censorship [letter]," New York Times, VI aanuary 29, 1922), 1. A Letter about The Adding Machine, New York Times, VII (April 1, 1923), 2. "Writing Directly for the Screen," The Authors' League Bulletin, XI aune, 1923), 16. "Zero et Shrdlu," Masques, Cahiers d'Art Dramatique, Sixieme cahier, edited by Hanry-Jannet. Paris: 1927. (A translation of two letters, unpublished in English , written to explain the parts of Zero and Shrdlu to Dudley Digges and Edward G. Robinson who played these roles in the 'first production of The Adding Machine.) "The Barry-Rice Letters [article]," New York Times, VIilI...