Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 9, 1936

Love on the Dole (by Ronald Gow & Walter Greenwood; Maurice Barber, producer) was hailed after its London premiere two years ago as a dramatic event of first importance. Last week Manhattan first-nighters were inclined to agree, for once, with their British cousins.

Even before it reached the stage, Novelist Greenwood's bitter description of the miserable living provided by Government bounty had assumed something of the authority of a State paper in Britain. It was referred to by members of Parliament when discussing the plight of the "depressed areas." Novelist Greenwood, who had written...