Scenes from Elmer Rice 's latest play ' A New Life ', produced earlier this season at the Royale Theatre, New York. Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Roy Lockwood. (Recorded by the BBC in New York)
The action takes place in the maternity ward of a skyscraper hospital overlooking the East River in New York
Elmer Rice , author of A New Life, is one of America's leading playwrights, and will be particularly remembered in this country for The Adding Machine (1923) and Street Scene (1929) — also perhaps for his book ' A Voyage to Puerilia' a brilliant satire on the world of Hollywood films.