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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When the ban was lifted, it had a successful run at the Savoy Theatre in the West End with a cast including Frank Lawton, Derrick De Marney, and Jack Hawkins. In Britain, it was first produced privately (by Phyllis Whitworth's Three Hundred Club) and then at the Arts Theatre in 1928. However, it was banned in London by the Lord Chamberlain's office owing to its then controversial portrayal of a schoolboy falling in love with his headmaster's wife. He first came to prominence with Young Woodley, a slight but charming study of adolescence, produced in New York in 1925. Before commencing his career as a writer, he practised law for a while as a solicitor and university lecturer in Wales. He was educated at University College School and read law at the University of London. Van Druten was born in London in 1901, son of a Dutch father named Wilhelmus van Druten and his English wife Eva. He was known for his plays of witty and urbane observations of contemporary life and society. He began his career in London, and later moved to America, becoming a U.S. John William Van Druten (1 June 1901 – 19 December 1957) was an English playwright and theatre director. ![]()
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