For the original American play, performed in New York during the year, which shall best represent the educational value and power of the stage in raising the standard of good morals, good taste and good manners, $1,000.
Street Scene, by Elmer L. Rice
The Jury
The Jury
A.E. Thomas(Chair)
Walter P. Eaton
Clayton Hamilton
Winners in Drama
1929 Prize Winners
Paul Scott Mowrer of the Chicago Daily News
For his coverage of international affairs including the Franco-British Naval Pact and Germany's campaign for revision of the Dawes Plan.
Rollin Kirby of the New York World
For "Tammany."
Louis Isaac Jaffe of The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.
For his editorial entitled "An Unspeakable Act of Savagery," which is typical of a series of articles written on the lynching evil and in successful advocacy of legislation to prevent it.