Up in Mabel's Room

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 655 words | Copyright

Up in Mabel's Room (1919), a farce by Wilson Collison and Otto Harbach. [Eltinge Theatre, 229 perf.] As a shy, worrying newlywed, Garry Ainsworth ( John Cumberland) is loath to have anything disturb his bride, so when he remembers that he once gave a silk undergarment to an old flame, Mabel Essington ( Hazel Dawn), he decides he must get it back immediately. He visits Mabel in her room, but has no sooner arrived than just about everybody he does not want to see appears. “An amusing farce of the lingerie genre,” as one critic put it, the comedy was one of a number of similar pieces that producer A. H. Woods mounted in these years.

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