Hubert Henry Davies
Hubert Henry Davies (17 March 1869 – 17 August 1917) was a British playwright and journalist. He was born in Woodley, Cheshire, and worked as a journalist in San Francisco before starting his playwriting career in New York with The Weldons (1899). Back in Britain, he teamed with theatre manager Charles Wyndham to stage several West End plays, including Cousin Kate and Mrs. Gorringe's Necklace in 1903.
His best known work is The Mollusc, first staged by Wyndham at the Criterion Theatre in 1907. It was revived in London in 1949 as The Lady of Leisure and later seen in Liverpool (2006) and at the Finborough Theatre (2007); a film adaptation followed. Davies also found success in New York. Other published plays include Cynthia (1903), Captain Drew on Leave, Lady Epping's Lawsuit, Bevis, A Single Man, Doormats, and Outcast (1914).
During World War I he worked in France as a hospital orderly and later suffered a nervous breakdown. He disappeared in August 1917 near Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire; his cap was found on the beach and he is presumed drowned. Mrs. Gorringe's Necklace became popular in Australia from 1906, produced by the Flemming-Brough Company and staged in Newcastle upon Tyne in October 1923.
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