Although Ruth Sherwood and her sister, Eileen are certainly the most famous small town girls from Ohio who settled in New York looking for love and adventure, they were only following a trail blazed by a pair of friends named Marge and Elsie. Never heard of them? It’s no wonder. Seven years before Ruth McKenney’s collected autobiographical stories were publish in The New Yorker as My Sister, Eileen – later to be adapted as a hit Broadway play and an even bigger hit musical, Wonderful Town – Dawn Powell completed her 1931 romantic comedy/drama Walking Down Broadway, which is only now getting its premiere production, courtesy of The Mint Theater.
Like McKenney, Powell was an Ohio girl who moved to New York to become a writer. Although not especially appreciated in her day, interest in her novels, plays and short stories has grown in the past 20 years with many literary critics ranking her among the more notable American writers of the early 20th Century. Fortunately for New Yorkers, The Mint Theatre specializes in seeking out underappreciated works such as Walking Down Broadway, and has given it a vibrant and humourous premiere.
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Bollywood is finally serenading the older couple. But have societal yardsticks changed? "Yes, we've come a long way from where we were," says novelist Shobhaa De. "Today, it's okay for a woman or man in her/his 40s or even 60s to seek happiness. Everybody deserves a second and even third chance at love and, finally, society has come to accept this. For Bollywood to be showing this shows the coming of age of Bollywood."
Ad man Alyque Padamsee believes that Bollywood follows societal trends. "Age was always a fixation, but just as we have got rid of many other fixations,
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