More than once I have commented on the difference in theatre tastes between English and American audiences. Sometimes they ce-incide.
A milieu people saw "Idiot's Delight" in New York, another million when it toured the States, When the play was brought to England a famous theat-tical manager prophesied a run of ten days, It ran for eight months, was withdrawn during the crisis, and has now re-started at another London theatre. A touring company is playing to packed houses in the provinces.
Such popularity on both sides of the Atlantic must be gratifying to the American author, Robert Sherwood, who wrote this anti-war play during
an English cow ouse. He receives the course of fopstight vacation in 10 per cent. of the gross takings, and it is estimated that his earnings already have passed the £200,000 mark, the biggest fortune ever made by a dramatist out of a single play. Hollywood bought the film rights for £35,000.
For most of us this play, which shows men and women impotent and bewildered in the face of an impending war, now has a new ficance and we realize how true was the author's insight
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