S.R.O.
the most successful plays in the history of the American stage
by Bennett Cerf · 1944
The old-timers: Uncle Tom's cabin, by Harriet B. Stowe (revised version by A. E. Thomas) East Lynne, by Mrs. Henry Wood. The two orphans, by Adolphe d'Ennery and Eugene Cormon. Starring vehicles: The old homestead, by Denman Thompson. Rip Van Winkle, as played by Joseph Jefferson. The man from home, by Booth Tarkington and H. L. Wilson. Not so long ago: Peg o' my heart, by J. H. Manners. Lightnin', by Winchell Smith and Frank Bacon. The bat, by Mary R. Rinehart and Avery Hopwood. You can't laugh them off: Abie's Irish Rose, by Anne Nichols. Tobacco road, by Erskine Caldwell. Today and forever: Life with father, by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Arsenic and old lace, by Joseph Kesselring. Oklahoma! By Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, II. Bibliographical notes.