Stanley Gilkey

Robert Whitehead and Elia Kazan were the producers of the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, and Gilkey was the general manager for their productions for the first two seasons as well as the theater board's acting administrator.

[5] He later was a co-producer with Michael P. Grace ll and Harry Rigby for John Murray Anderson's Almanac (1953).

Grace, like Gilky, had also produced a Broadway show that closed after a few days, The King of Friday's Men (1951).

[7] There was clearly a certain level of risk for the co-production, but The Almanac show was a success and went on to complete 229 performances.

The story presents Gikly at the time when he was a student at 1920 Harvard and was accused of being a homosexual by university administrators.