Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.The Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 25, 1924
Beggar on Horseback. George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly, authors of Dulcy and To the Ladies! have gratified even more than usual their impish itching to scalp the tired business man and expose his lack of brains. In Beggar on Horseback they have indulged their suppressed desires by murdering him. Their instrument of vengeance, an impraetical young composer, leaves no doubt of his pique by wiping out the stodgy manufacturer and his entire wealthy, babbitt family.
The wholesale homicide occurs in a dream. The manufacturer's family have camped on the composer's trail...
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