Word: wagstaff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author Morley been alone in his venture, many persons would have supposed that he would soon discover how and where the boos begin. He was not alone. Playwright Harry Wagstaff Gribble and Stage-designer Cleon Throckmorton were his most noteworthy associates. For their first season of production, several plays were mentioned: March Hares, Dracula, The Old Soak, dramatization of Where the Blue Begins, dramatization of Thunder on the Left...
March Hares. In 1921, this playfully preposterous comedy by Harry Wagstaff Gribble made two appearances on the Manhattan stage. Twice, with strenuous and pathetic spasms, like a fish in the grass, it flopped. There was a fairly unanimous feeling that the play would have lasted longer had it been played with more cunning and dexterity. When it became known that Richard Bird and Vivian Tobin were to appear in a second revival, theatregoers anticipated something that might brighten the last long week in Lent...
What redeeming features there are in the play appear in the really excellent work of Mrs. Ellspeth Dudgeon as the caustic, hard-headed, soft-hearted Mrs. Holmes, and the superb characterization of Violet Hunt by Miss Elsie Wagstaff, whose walk, voice, and manner give the very, spirit of the oldest profession. A word should also be said for Miss Doris Glaenzer, who was very entertaining as Alf's flat-footed first love. Mr. Clive, usually at home in any role, was not always quite convincing as a brother to all the world
...burlesque shows is a lot easier than letting up, is the experience of another doddering Romeo of the farce-ways. J. C. Nugent makes him a pathetic fool, but what really startled the audience was the fact that this poor business was, in part, the work of Playwright Harry Wagstaff Gribble who once wrote a good play, March Hares...
...Stage Guild, the newest dramatic organization of Boston, has followed up its initial success in "Ambush" with a most delightful presentation of "March Hares", by Harry. Wagstaff Gribble. "March Hares", as its title indicates, is a play of temperamentalists, of deadly serious extremists without the slightest saving spark of humor. The most extreme, most serious, most temperamental of them all is Geoffrey Wareham; the most dynamic, intense teacher of elocution who ever upset a household, The household, we might explain, consists of Mrs. Rodney, who tries hard to keep her equilibrium amid the general confusion her daughter Janet, the fiancee...