Rida Johnson Young(1875-1926)

Stage: Wrote "Brown of Harvard", produced on Broadway (earliest Broadway credit). Incidental music by Melville Ellis. Song in act two "When Love is Young" by Melville Ellis and Rida Johnson Young. Directed by Henry Miller. Princess Theatre: 26 Feb 1906-May 1906 (closing date unknown/101 performances). Cast: Henry Woodruff (as "Tom Brown"), William Resman Andrews, Homer Bassford, Catherine Calhoun, Laura Hope Crews (as "Evelyn Kenyon"), Howard Estabrook, Theodore Friebus, George Gerald, Robert Stowe Gill, Joseph H. Graybill, Howard Huselton, James Keating, Louis Le Bay, Kate Lester, Barry Mantle, Ethel Martin, G. Haven Peabody, Daniel Pennell, Abert Perry, Rchard Ridgely, William Rosell, Arthur Shaw, Mason Terry, Walter Thomas, Fred Thorne, Douglas J. Wood. NOTE: Filmed as Brown of Harvard (1911), Brown of Harvard (1918), Brown of Harvard (1926).