Morehouse, Ward

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

Morehouse, Ward (1899–1966), critic. Born in Savannah, Georgia, he was a student at North Georgia College when he joined a professional Shakespearean reader on tour. He subsequently worked for several Southern newspapers and for the New York Tribune before joining the New York Sun. Morehouse's “Broadway After Dark” column became one of that paper's most popular features, and in 1943 he was appointed its drama critic, a position he held until the paper folded and he became a critic and columnist for the Newhouse papers. He was also the author of one successful play, Gentlemen of the Press (1928), and of several eminently readable theatrical histories: Forty‐five Minutes Past Eight (1939), George M. Cohan: Prince of the American Theatre (1943), Matinee Tomorrow (1949), and Just the Other Day (1953).

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