COLLECTION NAME:
Theatre Arts
Record
Title:
Adding Machine
Title.Series:
Dr. Tice Miller Lecture Slides
Collection Title:
Theatre Arts
Notes:
1923
Title.Series.Notes:
The images and accompanying notes in this collection are taken from the lecture slides of Dr. Tice Miller, covering the history of theatrical practice from ancient cultures through the 20th century. These files contain depictions of theatrical spaces, scenery, costumes, lighting, practitioners, and theoreticians, augmented by historical artifacts and cultural materials.
Collection Information:
Collection administered by the Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library, (402)-472-1193
Description:
In 1923 Elmer Rice presented the public with The Adding Machine, and the critics hailed it as the American form of expressionism, despite the playwright's demurral. The hero, put out of work by an adding machine, kills his boss, goes to heaven, and is taught to operate an adding machine before being returned to earth again
Subject.Persons:
Rice, Elmer, 1892-1967. Adding machine
Subject:
Theater -- United States -- History -- 20th century ;American drama
Location:
United States
Classification Number:
ISM11
Image.Publisher:
University of Nebraska--Lincoln, Libraries
Image.Date:
2014
Source:
Tice Miller, Professor Emeritus UNL ; scan from teaching slides, original source unknown
