Saturday's Children

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

Saturday's Children (1927), a play by Maxwell Anderson. [Booth Theatre, 310 perf.] After Bobby Halevy ( Ruth Gordon) nabs the man of her dreams, Rims O'Neill ( Roger Pryor), she quickly realizes how unrealistic her ideas of married life were. Financial problems, family interference, and a certain immaturity all converge to destroy the marriage. Bobby leaves Rims and takes a room in a boardinghouse that forbids men to call on lady tenants. Rims, still deeply in love, climbs a fire escape to visit Bobby and convinces her that though Saturday's child must struggle for a living, life is worthless without love. Percy Hammond of the Herald Tribune called the work a “hushed little comedy” and admired “the quiet speed with which it tells its story.”

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