Cartoon, The Two Obadiahs

Cartoon, The Two Obadiahs, J Willing Senior and J Willing Junior. "What! Disgrace your family name, Jim, by writing plays! What next!" James Willing was actually a pseudonym for John Thomas Douglass (1842-1917), manager of the Standard Theatre, Shoreditch, London, and it is not clear whether the younger Willing existed or was simply just another pseudonym, to avoid Douglass's name appearing as the author of too many plays

Douglass Entr Acte Entracte Joke Junior Obadiah Pseudonym Shoreditch Willing

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