The Theatre: New Plays: Mar. 8, 1926

The Creaking Chair has an unusual history. It was written by an American, Allene Tupper Wilkes, and first produced in London. That stately metropolis promptly seized upon it and paid thousands of pounds for many months for the privilege of tingling to its grisly thrills. Then it was produced in Boston by a stock company, and so delighted that only slightly less stately community that it ran for six weeks against all the policies of the stock troupe. With these glistening references it comes to Manhattan and turns out to be a...