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Scatman Crothers is also memorable as the hotel's only other resident.

John Farr: Going Bump in the Night: More Prime Halloween Movie Fare John Farr 2010

Scatman Crothers is also memorable as the hotel's only other resident.

John Farr: Going Bump in the Night: More Prime Halloween Movie Fare John Farr 2010

The disloyalty to himself did not affect Sandy, he was far too sensible and simple a man to care deeply for that, and it somehow made it easier for him to reconcile his conscience to the growing distrust and contempt he had for Treadwell, but he disliked the idea of Crothers using his friend to gain his mean ends.

A Son of the Hills

Amazingly enough, "A Little Journey" isn't the only Rachel Crothers play currently on the boards: "He and She" opened this week at the East Lynne Theatre Company of Cape May, N.J. Might this be the beginning of a boomlet?

Welcome Back, Rachel Crothers Terry Teachout 2011

But Ms. Crothers knew that the most effective way to preach a sermon is to embed it in a fast-moving plot and adorn it with snappy dialogue.

Welcome Back, Rachel Crothers Terry Teachout 2011

Dated, improbable Joan Crawford comedy of manners, a remake of a 1933 film (itself adapted from a Rachel Crothers stage hit).

2009 October : Scrubbles.net 2009

Dated, improbable Joan Crawford comedy of manners, a remake of a 1933 film (itself adapted from a Rachel Crothers stage hit).

Weekly Mishmash: September 27-October 10 : Scrubbles.net 2009

Ms. Crothers, America's most successful woman playwright, is all but unknown today.

Welcome Back, Rachel Crothers Terry Teachout 2011

In fact, it's one of the best-known of storytelling tricks, but "A Little Journey" predates Vicki Baum's "Grand Hotel" by a decade, and Ms. Crothers may actually have invented the device herself.

Welcome Back, Rachel Crothers Terry Teachout 2011

But Ms. Crothers, like Lillian Hellman, was a commercial playwright who specialized in "well-made" plays, a genre that became unfashionable after Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller trashed the theatrical rulebook, and the fact that she'd been so popular in her lifetime worked against her posthumously.

Welcome Back, Rachel Crothers Terry Teachout 2011