I first published this article about the use of music and song in the 1935 play adaptation of Love on the Dole at the end of January 2024. However, recently looking again at the play I realised that the two printed editions (one by Jonathan Cape, one by Samuel French) have a further hymn in… Continue reading More Music! Revised version of ‘Two Songs, Two Hymns and a March in the Play of Love on the Dole’.
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New Article: Sam Grundy’s Car: Sally Hardcastle’s Resistance (1933; 1941)
The first appearance of Sam Grundy's car - a Wolseley County Saloon I think - in the 1941 film of Love on the Dole. Grundy has pulled up on a street in Hanky Park because he has seen Sally Hardcastle coming down the steps to the left. The bookie Sam Grundy's car might seem a… Continue reading New Article: Sam Grundy’s Car: Sally Hardcastle’s Resistance (1933; 1941)
New Article: Five Producers, Four Directors and Two Stars in Search of a Picture: the Tantalising Project of Love on the Dole as Film (1935-1941)*
Greenwood was very keen for Love on the Dole to appear in a film version after the success of his novel in 1933 and the play adaptation (co-written with Ronald Gow) in 1935. However, the BBFC (British Board of Film Censors) blocked production of a film three times - in 1935, 1936 and 1940 -… Continue reading New Article: Five Producers, Four Directors and Two Stars in Search of a Picture: the Tantalising Project of Love on the Dole as Film (1935-1941)*
New Article: ‘ “Servitude at the Desk”: Walter Greenwood and Clerical Work’.
Greenwood first worked as a pawnbroker's clerk aged twelve, before and after school. On leaving school aged thirteen he worked fulltime in the same job for a year before finding, aged fourteen, a new and better job as a clerk at the Pendleton offices of the Co-Operative Society. However, he was still extremely unhappy as… Continue reading New Article: ‘ “Servitude at the Desk”: Walter Greenwood and Clerical Work’.
New Article: Love on the Dole the Musical (1970)
There really was a new musical adaptation of Love on the Dole first produced in 1970, at the Nottingham Playhouse. Greenwood seems himself to have rejected angrily at least one suggestion in the late thirties that his story would make a good film musical (probably with a happy ending). However, he seems have mellowed by… Continue reading New Article: Love on the Dole the Musical (1970)
Walter Greenwood: Not Just Love on the Dole 