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Help[Opinions] Re: Days of the week
in reply to a message by olivbliv
Sunday was the first day name to be regularly used in modern times. Here are a couple of paragraphs from a column I wrote in 2018 explaining it:
In 1904 Ethel Barrymore (1879-1959) starred in the Broadway play “Sunday”, about a woman left as a baby on a doorstep and called after the day she’s found. “That’s all there is, there isn’t any more,” a line Barrymore made so famous it was parodied in many films, came from “Sunday.”
The play was the basis for “Our Gal Sunday”, a radio soap opera which began in 1937. Sunday, growing up poor in a Colorado mining camp, ends up marrying British Lord Henry Brinthrope. “Our Gal Sunday,” one of radio’s top shows for much of its run, lasted until 1959.
In 1904 Ethel Barrymore (1879-1959) starred in the Broadway play “Sunday”, about a woman left as a baby on a doorstep and called after the day she’s found. “That’s all there is, there isn’t any more,” a line Barrymore made so famous it was parodied in many films, came from “Sunday.”
The play was the basis for “Our Gal Sunday”, a radio soap opera which began in 1937. Sunday, growing up poor in a Colorado mining camp, ends up marrying British Lord Henry Brinthrope. “Our Gal Sunday,” one of radio’s top shows for much of its run, lasted until 1959.
