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Walter Greenwood
Walter Greenwood (17 December 1903 – 13 September 1974) was an English novelist, best known for the socially influential novel ''Love on the Dole'' (1933). Early life Greenwood was born at 56 Ellor Street, his father's house and hairdresser's shop in "Hanky Park", Pendleton, Salford, Lancashire. His father, Tom, died when he was nine years old, and his mother, Elizabeth Matilda, provided for him by working as a waitress. Greenwood's parents belonged to the radical working classes; his mother came from a family with a strong tradition of socialism and union membership, and she inherited her father’s book-case complete with its socialist book collection. Greenwood was educated at the local council school and left at the age of 13. While the normal school leaving age at the time was 14, he was able to leave a year early after taking the Board of Education Labour Exam, which was only 'open to fatherless boys' so that they could go to work to help support their family. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love On The Dole
''Love on the Dole'' is a novel by Walter Greenwood, about working-class poverty in 1930s Northern England. It has been made into both a play and a film. The novel Walter Greenwood's novel (1933) was written during the early 1930s as a response to the crisis of unemployment, which was being felt locally, nationally, and internationally. It is set in Hanky Park, an industrial slum in Salford, where Greenwood was born and brought up. The novel begins around the time of the General Strike of 1926, but its main action takes place in 1931. The novel follows the Hardcastle family as they are pulled apart by mass unemployment. The 17-year-old Harry Hardcastle of Mansfield, studying in Lincoln, starts the novel working in a pawn shop, but is attracted to the glamour of working in the engineering factory Marlows Ltd. After seven years working there as an apprentice, he is laid off in the midst of the Great Depression, and is from that point on unable to find work. He becomes romanticall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Information (United Kingdom)
The Ministry of Information (MOI), headed by the Minister of Information, was a United Kingdom government department created briefly at the end of the First World War and again during the Second World War. Located in Senate House at the University of London during the 1940s, it was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda. The MOI was dissolved in March 1946, with its residual functions passing to the Central Office of Information (COI); which was itself dissolved in December 2011 due to the reforming of the organisation of government communications. First World War Before the Lloyd George War Cabinet was formed in 1917, there was no full centralised coordination of public information and censorship. Even under the War Cabinet, there were still many overlapping departments involved. The Admiralty, War Office and Press Committee (AWOPC) had been formed in 1912 as a purely advisory body, chaired initially by the Secretary of the Admiralty Sir G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saturday Night At The Crown
''Saturday Night at the Crown'' is a 1959 novel by the British writer Walter Greenwood. It was his final novel, inspired by his 1954 play of the same title. The play had premiered in Morecambe in 1954 before running for 234 performances at the Garrick Theatre in London's West End from 1957 to 1958. He dedicated to the novel to Thora Hird who had starred in the play.Hopkins p.48 It takes place in a working class Manchester pub over a single day and evening focusing particularly on the landlord Harry Boothroyd, barmaid Sally Earnshaw and the domineering Ada Thorpe and her family. While set in a similar urban community as his most famous work ''Love on the Dole'', the setting reflects the growing prosperity of the postwar economic boom rather than the Great Depression The Great Depression (19291939) was an economic shock that impacted most countries across the world. It was a period of economic depression that became evident after a major fall in stock prices in the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Something In My Heart (novel)
''Something in My Heart'' is a 1944 novel by the British writer Walter Greenwood. It is a loose sequel to his debut and best-known novel ''Love on the Dole'', a 1933 work set in Salford at the height of the Great Depression.Hopkins p.241 This book presented a more optimistic view of a potential postwar future that was absent in the despair in the original novel. Synopsis The story opens in 1937 with Helen Oakroyd working in a textile mill while her two friends Harry and Taffy are both on the dole. When war breaks out with Nazi Germany in 1939 both enlist in the RAF The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's air and space force. It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the first independent air force in the world, by regrouping the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and .... References Bibliography * Hopkins, Chris. ''Walter Greenwood's Love on the Dole: Novel, Play, Film''. Oxford University Press, 2018. 1944 British novels Novels by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Only Mugs Work
''Only Mugs Work'' is a 1938 melodromatic crime novel by the British writer Walter Greenwood. Greenwood had established his reputation in 1933 with ''Love on the Dole'', set in a district closely modelled on working-class Salford. In this case the setting is shifted to London's Soho, but features a similar blend of realism and drama. It is set amongst the spivs of the capital city.Partridge p.668 It was one of a number of novels that focused on the activities of the London underworld in the late 1930s including ''There Ain't No Justice'', '' The House in Greek Street'' and ''Night and the City ''Night and the City'' is a 1950 film noir directed by Jules Dassin and starring Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney and Googie Withers. It is based on the Night and the City (novel), novel of the same name by Gerald Kersh. Shot on location in Londo ...''. References Bibliography * Hopkins, Chris. ''Walter Greenwood's Love on the Dole: Novel, Play, Film''. Oxford University Press, 2018. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Secret Kingdom (novel)
''The Secret Kingdom'' is a 1938 novel by the British writer Walter Greenwood. Like his best-known novel ''Love on the Dole'' it is set in Salford. It portrays the working-class socialist Byron family, and particularly the eldest daughter Paula who tries to establish an independent identity after finding working a parlour maid. She encounters Bert Treville in nearby Manchester and the two begin a courtship. After his death due to heavy drinking, she brings up her son Lance as a single-mother, throwing her effort into her talented child she is vindicated when he emerges as a talented concert pianist - performing on national radio in the final scene. Adaptation In 1960 it was adapted into an eight-part BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC Here i going to introduce about the best teacher of my life b BALAJI sir. He is the precious gift that I got befor 2yrs . How has helped and thought all the concept and made my success in the 10th board ex ... television series of the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Wragg
Arthur Wragg (3 January 1903 – 17 August 1976) was a British illustrator. His stark poster-like artwork often dealt with themes of social alienation and spiritual emptiness. All his work was done for publication, rather than in 'fine art' media such as paintings or series of prints. As a result, he has been neglected in comparison with contemporaries such as Graham Sutherland and John Piper (artist), John Piper, but Wragg's choice of medium was an ideological one. As a socialist and pacifist, Wragg wanted his art to speak directly to common people rather than to art-lovers. His vivid, polemical style had considerable influence on other popular forms in the 1940s and 1950s, such as government information posters and advertising. He was born in Eccles, Greater Manchester, and grew up in Harrogate, Yorkshire, along with his sister Amy Wragg, born 1898. He was the son of George Arthur Wragg (a travelling soap salesman for Lively Polly) from Sheffield, Yorkshire, and Alice Smethurst E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Standing Room Only (novel)
''Standing Room Only'' is a 1936 comedy novel by the British writer Walter Greenwood.Russell p.96 It was his third novel. Like his previous two, including his bestselling debut ''Love on the Dole'', the work is partly set in his native Salford. The novel was somewhat self-reflexive as the protagonist Henry Ormerod strongly resembles Greenwood's own background and experiences. It was not as critically well-received as his two previous novels. Synopsis Henry Ormerod, a working-class draper's assistant, has ambitions to become a playwright which are mocked by both his mother and prospective wife Edna. However his play is unexpectedly generates interest from a theatrical producer who sees it as a perfect vehicle for a female star, leading to one his rivals to outbid him and buy the rights to the work. Ormerod travels south to London's West End, but finds he has lost all financial and artistic control over his work. Abandoning his romantic pursuit of the actress Dilys Richmond, he fle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His Worship The Mayor
''His Worship the Mayor'' is a 1934 novel by the British writer Walter Greenwood. It was his second novel, following on from the success of his bestselling debut ''Love on the Dole'' the previous year. His new work drew on his experience as a Labour councillor, and focuses on corruption in local government a theme also addressed in Winifred Holtby’s '' South Riding''. The novel features Sam Grundy, the bookmaker who had appeared in ''Love on the Dole''. It received positive reviews from critics including Harold Brighouse in ''The Guardian''. In 1936 Greenwood adapted it into a play ''Give Us This Day''.Hopkins p.208 Synopsis Edgar Hargreaves, a struggling tailor in Salford Salford () is a city and the largest settlement in the City of Salford metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. In 2011, Salford had a population of 103,886. It is also the second and only other city in the metropolitan county afte ..., suddenly comes into a sizable inheritance and enters lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Producers Guild
The Film Producers Guild was a collective of documentary film companies in England. Peter Morley"Peter Morley - A Life Rewound" Part 1 (PDF) British Academy of Film and Television Arts (2006), pp. 41-42. Retrieved September 29, 2011 It was formed in August 1944 Film & TV database. Retrieved October 6, 2011 and had offices and screening facilities on Upper St. Martin's Lane, in London. They owned in south London. Guild producers, directors, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randall Swingler
Randall Carline Swingler MM (28 May 1909 – 19 June 1967) was an English poet, writing extensively in the 1930s in the communist interest. Early life and education His was a prosperous upper middle class Anglican family in Aldershot, with an industrial background in the Midlands and earlier aristocratic roots in Scotland. His uncle and godfather was Randall Davidson, the Archbishop of Canterbury (1903 – 1928) and he was the cousin of the writer Sir Walter Scott. He was educated at Winchester College, and New College, Oxford. He served with the British Army in Italy in World War II. His egalitarian beliefs led him to refuse a commission and he joined as a private soldier, repeatedly refusing offers of a battlefield commission. He saw action in the Italian campaign and was awarded the Military Medal. He left the CPGB in 1956. He was a founder of E. P. Thompson's ''The New Reasoner'' (from 1957).Croft, Andy. ''Comrade Heart: A Life of Randall Swingler'' (2003), revised 2020 a'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Keene
Ralph Keene (1902–1963) was an Indian-born British screenwriter, producer and film director. He is generally known for his work on documentaries. Following the Second World War he shot a number of non-fiction films outside Britain including in Cyprus, Ceylon and Persia.Barsam p.244 Selected filmography Screenwriter * ''A Boy, a Girl and a Bike'' (1949) * ''Double Confession ''Double Confession'' is a 1950 British crime film directed by Ken Annakin and starring Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, William Hartnell and Peter Lorre. The screenplay, written by William Templeton, is based on the novel, ''All On A Summer's Day'' ...'' (1950) References Bibliography * Barsam, Richard Meran. ''Nonfiction Film: A Critical History''. External links * 1902 births 1963 deaths Businesspeople from Mysore British film directors British film producers British male screenwriters 20th-century British screenwriters British people in colonial India {{UK-film-producer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
