Alice Gerstenberg

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The play “He said and she said” written by Alice Gerstenberg and playwright who was born on August 2,1885 , parents by the name of julia and erich were very wealthy socialists who were featured on the society pages of the day constantly. Alice went to many school including one college that was known for educating many high society women. While she was at the college she began to write plays and also started performing plays in theatrical productions. After alice graduated from Bryn Mawr she decided to move to chicago and there she got very involved in the Chicago theater world. Also in chicago she got encouraged to go on and do her own plays and so she did. In New york Alice conducted her first-full length play in 1915 called “The conscience …show more content…
Cyrus Packard over for dinner to be nice and to just simply have dinner with her two good friends and her husband. The whole entire dinner shifted when Mrs. Cyrus showed up first and started to share with Enid some information she claimed she heard from others around town about her best friend Diana sleeping with her husband Felix. Enid beliveded Mrs. Cyrus to an center extend to the point where she felt some type of way eventually, about Diana and was questioning there friendship . While Enid was away handling something Diana walked in the house and Mrs. Cyrus decided to fill up Diana’s head also with what the town said about her and felix secretly being in love with each other. Mrs. Cyrus started to tell her how everyone knows that her and flex are talking because she couldnt understand why diana wasnt married already. Mrs. Cyrus and the whole town couldnt understand Diana’s unmarriedness because she was a beautful and smart girl and everyone wanted to marry her and she just never decided to commite and marry a man. After all the man in the town went and left because they were in war no one seemed to understand her logic in not marrying one of them before they went to war. Mrs. Cyrus summed up in her head since diana didnt marry that she must be secretly in love with felix because he was basically the only one to stay from the war because of his job and is very good friends with

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