Between the Covers

Softcover. Playscript. Quarto. 42, 49, 41pp. Carbon typed leaves printed rectos only bradbound into pale yellow wrappers with title typed on front wrap. "L.L.'s copy" on front wrap, a few pencil notations in the text, stamp date of "Mar 5 1941," and small tears on the yapped edges, else near fine. Treadwell was a prominent American playwright and journalist of the early 20th Century best known for her play *Machinal*, about convicted murderess Ruth Synder. This is likely producer Lawrence Langer's copy of the short-lived play that he produced in 1941 starring Fredric March and Alan Reed. It was published in 1942 by Samuel French and produced in 1953 on the television drama series, *The United States Steel Hour*. *OCLC* locates one other playscript but with a different pagination.

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