Word: druten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There's Always Juliet. John Van Druten (Young Woodley) tells the tale of an English girl (Edna Best) and a young American (Herbert Marshall) who fall head-over-heels in love with each other at first sight. They have been acquainted only two days when he is called back to Manhattan to look after his architectural business. He offers marriage, and for the first time they sit down soberly and try to find out about each other. He has been wed before, divorced, has a child in Colorado. These revelations suddenly turn a carefree romance into a very serious...
Playwright Van Druten has presented his compassionate little comedy with extraordinary persuasiveness and grace. And he has taken occasion to seed his play, first produced in London, with good-natured transatlantic jibes calculated to tickle audiences on either side of the ocean...
After All is the work of John van Druten, whose Young Woodley, produced in 1925, was finally allowed to run in London three years after its U.S. presentation. After All is not another Young Woodley. It is the sort of play in which a number of worried English folk go about "facing it." In the case of After All the situations to be faced are a daughter's going off and living with an architect for two years before he marries her; and her brother's unhappy marriage with a poisonous Bohemian. The parents, particularly the mother, accept...
...JOHN van Druten's new play, "After All", will be published on December 4, the day after it opens at the Booth Theater in New York City. It is described as a play of family life. Mr. van Druten is also the author of "Young Woodley", which had a successful run in New York in 1925, and of "A Woman on Her Way", a novel published last year by Mr. Knopf...