Success Story (play) explained

Success Story
Setting:Office in New York City headquarters of Raymond Merritt Company
Premiere:September 26, 1932
Place:Maxine Elliott's Theatre
New York City, New York
Orig Lang:English
Genre:Drama

Success Story was a 1932 Broadway three-act drama written by John Howard Lawson, produced by the Group Theatre and staged by Lee Strasberg with Scenic design byMordecai Gorelik. It ran for 121 performances from September 26, 1932, to January 1933 at the Maxine Elliott's Theatre. This was actor Russell Collins' Broadway debut. ActorsWilliam Challee and Ruth Nelson were a married couple.

Plot

In 1928 young Sol Ginsberg joins a Madison Avenue advertising agency. Formerly a radical idealist his philosophy changes to money as being the culmination of the American Dream. He starts to compromise his former ideals to advance his career, risking losing the faith of his childhood sweetheart and in himself.

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