When Ladies Meet

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

When Ladies Meet (1932), a comedy by Rachel Crothers. [Royale Theatre, 191 perf.] Novelist Mary Howard ( Frieda Inescort) has written a book about a woman who loves a married man and about what happens when that woman meets the man's wife. Her book turns out to be a preview of her own life, for Mary loves her publisher, Rogers Woodruff ( Herbert Rawlinson), and does meet his wife, Claire ( Selena Royle), at the home of Bridget Drake ( Spring Byington). At first neither woman realizes who the other is, but when the realization finally dawns on them they recognize they have more feelings in common than either of them has with Rogers. Mary quickly falls out of love. Bridget assumes Rogers will now return to Claire. Mary, however, ruefully informs her, “She doesn't want him now. That's what I've done to her. I'll never forget her eyes—what she saw.” John Golden produced Crothers's observant study of women interacting, and it was praised by the Post for being “as rich in its humor as it is warm in its sympathy.”

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