Walter Kerr

Ira Peck

Murray Schisgal

Poor Harry Berlin decides to end it all by jumping off the Manhattan Bridge. He is stopped by his old friend Milt who takes Harry home and introduces him to his wife, Ellen, with whom Harry instantly falls in love. Milt and Ellen divorce, then realize they're still in love; to get back together, they have to encourage Harry to jump off the bridge.

2 plays introd. by the author

The typists and the tiger

THE STORIES: In the first play, THE PUSHCART PEDDLERS, the greenhorn, Shimmel, fresh from the old country, meets the older, wiser Cornelius and is inveigled into buying his pushcart business. Complications arise when Cornelius returns with another

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The Pushcart Peddlers

THE STORY: As described by The New York Post : The play is about a starving young painter living in a Greenwich Village loft...He is immediately established as mildly freaky: beer chilling on top of an ice cube, a mat of hair pasted on his che

Jimmy Shine

THE STORY: As described by the New York Times: When the play begins there is Harry Berlin, looking like a shaved, mustachioed beatnik who has sunk so low that honest beatniks would disown him. He has no future except to jump off the bridge and is

Murray Schisgal

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