the two went on to co-write the plays "the first flight" and "the buccaneer", both in 1925. stallings continued his theatre career with the book and lyrics for the musical "deep river" (1926), adapted ernest hemingway's novel "a farewell to arms" for the stage in 1930, co-wrote the book for the musicals "rainbow" (1928) with oscar hammerstein, and "virginia" (1937) with owen davis, and penned the play "the streets are guarded" in 1944. he was a member of the algonquin round table.