Elmer Rice — American Playwright born on September 28, 1892, died on May 08, 1967

Elmer Rice 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 ... (wikipedia)

Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants.
When he asked me, with obvious self-satisfaction, what I thought of the scenario, I hardly knew how to answer. I asked if he had seen the play and was hardly surprised when he said no.