White Wings: A Play

by Philip Barry, Donald Ogden Stewart (Introduction)

1927. No dramatist examined the life and manners of America's privileged class with more clarity and sensitivity than Philip Barry. Manor born himself, Barry was educated at both Yale and Harvard and was at home among the members of the famed Algonquin Round Table. His play, White Wings, is a fantastic satire on ritual and tradition told in terms of a family of street cleaners.

212 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1927

About the author

Philip James Quinn Barry was an American playwright, best known for the plays Holiday and The Philadelphia Story, both of which were successfully adapted into movies starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn (as well as James Stewart, in The Philadelphia Story).