The sub-title to Greenwood (and Arthur Wragg's) important short story collection of 1937, The Cleft Stick, is a song-title - but I have only just realised this after working on Greenwood for fifteen years! Moreover, Greenwood refers to the same song three times in his work - in the novel of Love on the Dole… Continue reading New Article – ‘Walter’s Theme Song?: ‘It’s the same the whole world over’ (1933, 1935, 1937)
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New Article: Love on the Dole and a Case of Theatrical Fraud: Feltham Police Court and the Old Bailey, November 1935 – February 1936.
A story of a man, Mr Arthur Brookes, who offered an investor, Mr John Evered, a chance to make substantial money from funding a production of Love on the Dole at the Lyceum Theatre London. Evered handed over £2050, and even got engaged to Brookes' daughter Joan (or was she?) before discovering that there was… Continue reading New Article: Love on the Dole and a Case of Theatrical Fraud: Feltham Police Court and the Old Bailey, November 1935 – February 1936.
Walter Greenwood: Not Just Love on the Dole 