GRAHAM Moffat, seen here on the left, was a noted actor and playwright whose greatest success was a comedy, Bunty Pulls the Strings. Produced in 1911, it sent his fame over the English-speaking world.
The play was staged at the Playhouse, London, then ran for some 600 performances at the Haymarket Theatre. The cast included Moffat, his wife Maggie (who also designed the dresses), their daughter Winifred, two brothers, and a sister.
“It became immensely popular”, said Moffat’s obituary in these pages, in December 1951. “Fashionable London took it up. ‘Bunty’ had conquered the West End. Mr [Herbert Henry] Asquith [the then Prime Minister] was among the classical scholars who found in this quaintly amusing study of Scottish character a source of enjoyment which could not be wholly satisfied with one performance”.