New Britain herald., 1923-01-13
50 THIS $ LONDON" ON BROADWAY
 $ FROM PEN OF NEW BRITAIN MAN
Arthur Goodrich Also Au- thor of "Yes or No" Pro- duced at Lyceum by the Cormican Players.

'''so This Is London" conceded by a majority of the dramatic critics in New York city as being the second best Of the large number Of comedy dramas playing on Broadway this cur rent season. Is from the pen of Arthur Goodrich. a former New Britain man, whose mother. Mrs Frederick dood- rich and sister. Mrs. Howard Horton. live al ss Bassett street. this city.
 The play. which opened at the Hud- son theater on West ltth street the latter part of August. was favorably and unfavorabiy criticized by drama tic critics. but as most of them have admitted. it has proven a success be- cause it is satire on American as we'll as English life. The production has been staged by George M. cohan.
 Itecali Amusing Incident
 Local friends of MT. Goodrich re- call m amusing incident in reference to the opening night of the play in New York when the Hudson theater was well filled with the so-called First Nighters" who almost always call for the author of the play if the play gives m inkling of proving the least bit successful. So. as was ex- pected, at the end of the second act and after many curtain calls for the various performers the audience de- manded that the author make cur tain speech.
 In reply to the incessant applaud ing and the demand of the people Mir. Cohan came from behind the curtain and in a most casual manner an- nounced that Mir. Goodrich, the au- thor. was not in the theater but was attending a movie" over on Broad way.
 Wrote "Yes or No"
 Mir. Goodrich Is also the author of Yes or Mo-" the only other play which he has written and which has proven a success. This ran for sev- eral months at the Lexington theater in New York just previous to the war but since that time has been released for stock; has played in many of the larger cities throughout the country by road companies and has most re- gently been produced in moving pie lures with Norma Talmadge as the star.
 New Britain theatergoers will par haps recall that the James Cormican dramatic stock in this city with the of "Yes or Mo-" The play was most favorably reviewed by the Herald Reviewer and drew capa- city houses for the entire week. The picture version of the play has been at the Palace theater.
 Local H. S. Graduate
 Mir. Goodrich is a graduate Of the New Britain High school in the class of 1894 and later was graduated! from Wesleyan college with the class i of 1899. He also attended Columbia in New York. While at the High school he began his literary { work as editor of the school paper, i he same holding true at college. z Upon graduating from Columbia, I Mir. Goodrich was employed by the w. Page Publishing company of Newt : York and while with them was as- :, signed to cover territory in England IS a magazine correspondent. He re- turned to New York and was assist r mt editor of the Outing" magazine. r
 Wrote Several Stories Leaving this concern Mr. Goodrich . continued his study in the literary : field and became a novelist. "The = Balance of Power" his first book, = vas published in 1906. Others which :. lave been written by him, have been '' published and proven good sellers are : The Clean of Dawn" ''The Yard | tick Man" and "The Lady Without S ewels."
 While writing novels Mir. Goodrich ,as also studying playwriting and Yes or No' was his first successful lay, although he had written several