Saturday's Children

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.”