This is surely the most unflattering headline Greenwood ever appeared under - and the sub-headline was not much better: 'Unemployed Man Writes Book'. However, the article gets better as it goes on, and Greenwood was allowed to tell his own story as an unemployed man who had become a writer in his own words. It… Continue reading New Article: Walter Greenwood’s First Press Interview: ‘Idle Days Turned to Money’! (Manchester Evening News, 1933)
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New Article – Two Songs (and a Hymn) in the Play of Love on the Dole: Act I and Act III, scene 2 (1934/1935)
No one has ever paid much attention to the musical content of the original play/s of Love on the Dole, but they certainly had several songs which were used in many hundreds of live performances, though they did not survive into radio adaptations or the film. This is the first time the songs and their… Continue reading New Article – Two Songs (and a Hymn) in the Play of Love on the Dole: Act I and Act III, scene 2 (1934/1935)
New Article – the Novel Putnam Published Instead of Love on the Dole: Hans Fallada’s Little Man What Now (1933)
In 1932 Greenwood received a letter from the publisher George Putnam saying that though they had read his manuscript [of what was to become titled Love on the Dole], they could not take it because they already had a similar unemployment novel in their lists - a translation of the German novelist Hans Fallada's Little… Continue reading New Article – the Novel Putnam Published Instead of Love on the Dole: Hans Fallada’s Little Man What Now (1933)
New Short Article – a new letter from Greenwood discussing his recent successes (6 March 1934)
Greenwood wrote in his memoir (There was a Time, 1967, p. 249) that 1933 was to be 'a wonderful year' after Cape accepted his novel for publication. What he did not then know was that 1934 was to be a worthy sequel, with the success of his co-written play version of his first novel, and… Continue reading New Short Article – a new letter from Greenwood discussing his recent successes (6 March 1934)
New article – ‘Three Cheers for the First Night, 26 February 1934! Audrey Cameron’s Celebration Copy of Love on the Dole’.
On the 26th February 1934, the stage manager for the premiere of Love on the Dole, Audrey Cameron, brought in a copy of the original novel, and asked the entire named cast to sign it. This (admittedly long, but also copiously illustrated) article pays tribute to the signatories - that original cast of the Manchester… Continue reading New article – ‘Three Cheers for the First Night, 26 February 1934! Audrey Cameron’s Celebration Copy of Love on the Dole’.
Walter Greenwood: Not Just Love on the Dole 