Why Men Leave Home

Why Men Leave Home is set on Long Island at the country estate of married couple Tom and Fifi Morgan.

Tom is at first overjoyed, but is quickly upset once again when he discovers Fifi has invited two of traveling companions, Nina and Betty, to stay the weekend.

Nina and Betty also bring their neglected husbands with them, and comedy of errors, including a bedroom farce involving infidelity, ensues.

[1] The production was produced by Wagenhals and Kemper and starred John McFarlane as Tom and Florence Shirley as Fifi.

[5] Others in the cast included Teresa Maxwell-Conover as Nina, Paul Everton as Sam, Audrey Hart as Betty, Norval Keedwell as Billy, Isabel Leighton as Sybil, Wauna Loraine as Doris, Herbert Yost as Artie, Jessie Villars as Grandma, Minor Watson as the Butler, and Peggy Lytton as the Maid.

WPA poster for Hopwood's 1922 play Why Men Leave Home