"the exterior of a 'walk-up' apartment house in a mean quarter of New York. It is of ugly brownstone." Rice was thinking of a building on West 65th Street in Manhattan while writing the play. The main characters are Anna Maurrant, dealing with issues of infidelity; Rose Maurrant, her daughter, who struggles with the demands of her job and boss and her attraction to Jewish neighbor Sam Kaplan; Frank Maurrant, the domineering and sometimes abusive husband and father of Anna and Rose, respectively; Sam, a caring and concerned neighbor in love with Rose; and many other neighbors and passersby. Leo Bulgakov as Abraham Kaplan Eleanor Wesselhoeft as Greta Fiorentino Beulah Bondi as Emma Jones Hilda Bruce as Olga Olsen Russell Griffin as Willie Maurrant Mary Servoss as Anna Maurrant Conway Washburne as Daniel Buchanan Robert Kelly as Frank Maurrant T.H. Manning as George Jones Joseph Baird as Steve Sankey Jane Corcoran as Agnes Cushing John Qualen as Carl Olsen Anna Konstant as Shirley Kaplan George Humbert as Filippo Fiorentino Emily Hamill as Alice Simpson Frederica Going as Laura Hildebrand Eileen Smith as Mary Hildebrand Alexander Lewis as Charlie Hildebrand Horace Braham as Samuel Kaplan Erin O'Brien-Moore as Rose Maurrant Glenn Coulter as Harry Easter Millicent Green as Mae Jones Joseph Lee as Dick McGann Matthew McHugh as Vincent Jones John Crump as Dr. John Wilson Edward Downes as Officer Harry Murphy Ralph Willard as a Milkman Herbert Lindholm as a Letter-Carrier Samuel S. Bonnell as an Iceman and An Interne Mary Emerson as a Music Student Ellsworth Jones as Marshall James Henry Jean Sidney as Fred Cullen Joe Cogert as an Old-Clothes Man Anthony Pawley as an Ambulance Driver Street Scene ran 601 performances on Broadway and toured throughout the United States. During the play's six-month run in London, Aldous Huxley became an ardent fan of Erin O'Brien-Moore, and saw her starring performance as Rose Maurrant at least three times. Reception "Still unwilling to write a conventional play according to the safe, stereotyped forms, Elmer Rice contents himself with writing an honest one," wrote Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times. "He has observed and transcribed his material perfectly. Never did the phantasmagorira of street episodes seem so lacking in sketchy types and so packed with fully delineated character." Accolades Street Scene received the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was included in Burns Mantle's The Best Plays of 1928–29.