George Willoughby (theatre entrepreneur)

which toured Australia with a string of George Howells Broadhurst comedies: The Wrong Mr. Wright, Why Smith Left Home and What Happened To Jones[5] Tragedy struck when two actresses, Sallie Booth and Ada Lee, died of bubonic plague on 27 and 28 February 1902 while staying at the Criterion Hotel, Pitt Street, Sydney.

[11] Sidney Wilner and Walter Vincent's Stranger in a Strange Land was added to their repertoire in 1904, at the end of which year the company disbanded.

Stars of the Willoughby – Geach company included Roxy Barton, Ethel Appleton, Hardinge Maltby, Tom Cannam, Frank Denton, George Leopold,[12] Grace Gale[13] and Miss Roland Watts Phillips.

Du Souchet), the play in which Willie Collier, under the J. C. Williamson banner and with the young John Barrymore in the cast, had failed.

They had one son: Their home in 1907 was "Carisbrook", Potts Point, Sydney, Double Bay in 1940, and Northwood Road Lane Cove in 1951.