- Father of writer Frances Donaldson and Angela Fox.
- Enjoyed a 40-year career as a Broadway playwright and director; active there from 1910-1950. A 1985 revival of his 1923 romantic comedy, Aren't We All? marked Claudette Colbert's final stage appearance.
- The son of a tobacconist and author of sophisticated plays about life in high society. Briefly under contract to MGM in 1930.
- Father in law of Rodney Ackland.
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