House of Glass, The

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

House of Glass, The (1915), a play by Max Marcin. [Chandler Theatre, 245 perf.] Margaret Case ( Mary Ryan) is sent to prison for a crime she did not commit. After she is paroled she hides her prison record from the man she eventually marries, Harvey Lake ( Frederick Burt). However, Lake believes one of his employees is stealing, and when he calls in a detective to get the evidence, he learns the truth about his wife. A kindly state governor helps reconcile the couple. Because of similarities in the early part of its story, many critics compared the play with Within the Law and found the new work somewhat inferior but still agreed it was gripping theatre. Co‐producer George M. Cohan is said to have helped Marcin whip the play into shape. A sign of the healthy theatrical economics of the time was the fact that while this was Marcin's first play, the very next show to open on Broadway (the next night) was another Marcin play.

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