Up in Mabel's Room (play)

Up in Mabel's Room
Hazel Dawn as Mabel
Written by	Wilson Collison and Otto Hauerbach
Date premiered	January 15, 1919 (1919-01-15)
Place premiered	Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre
Original language	English
Genre	Farce

Up in Mabel's Room is a play written by Wilson Collison and Otto Hauerbach. Producer Albert H. Woods staged it on Broadway in 1919.

Plot

Garry Ainsworth is married to Geraldine, who is jealous of his previous relationship with a pretty young widow, Mabel Essington. When they were together, Garry gave Mabel a chemise with their names embroidered on it. He wants to recover the garment before Geraldine learns of its existence. Garry's efforts are interpreted by other characters as evidence of a tryst between him and Mabel, leading to a confrontation between Mabel and Geraldine before the misunderstanding is resolved.

Cast and characters

The characters and cast from the Broadway production are given below:

John Cumberland played Garry in the Broadway production.

Cast of the Broadway production

Character	Broadway cast
Kruger	Frederick Sutton
Corliss	Harry C. Bradley
Jimmy Larchmont	Walter Jones
Garry Ainsworth	John Cumberland
Geraldine	Enid Markey
Mabel Essington	Hazel Dawn
Martha Weldon	Lucy Cotton
Alicia Larchmont	Evelyn Gosnell
Arthur Weldon	H. Dudley Hawley
Marie	Adele Rolland

History

The play opened at the Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre on January 15, 1919. It closed in August 1919 after 229 performances.

Adaptations

The play was adapted twice as a movie. A 1926 silent film adaptation starred Marie Prevost as Mabel. A 1944 film adaptation starred Marjorie Reynolds.

References

• Wainscott, Ronald Harold (1997). The Emergence of the Modern American Theater, 1914–1929. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-06776-3. OCLC 35128122.
• Bordman, Gerald (1995). American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1914–1930. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509078-0. OCLC 30356203.

External links

• ​Up in Mabel's Room​ at the Internet Broadway Database