Emily Wakeman Hartley

[2] Emily Wakeman was an actress as a young woman, usually playing comic or character roles, including Broadway appearances in Caleb West (1900), Lover's Lane (1901), Marta of the Lowlands (1903), A Case of Frenzied Finance (1905), The Firm of Cunningham (1905), The House of Mirth (1906),[3] The Three Daughters of Monsieur Dupont (1910), and The Runaway (1911).

[4] Emily Wakeman Hartley was the founder, fundraiser, and manager of the Stamford Theatre,[5] which opened in 1914.

[11] In 1902, Emily Wakeman married Randolph Hartley, a librettist, publicist, and opera critic; his grandfather was poet and editor Rufus Wilmot Griswold.

Emily Wakeman Hartley was widowed in 1931[13] and died in 1935, from a heart attack, aged 62 years.

[10] In 1987, an Emily Wakeman Hartley Theater Series began in Stamford, named in her memory.