#norval larkin

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The Huddleston Players in the closest thing we’ll have to a formal portrait of them.

L-R: Norval Larkin, Algernon Huddleston, Will Conrad, Edward Griswold, Quinby Perch, Reginald Prescott.

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The Huddleston Players.

In order: Algernon Huddleston, Will Conrad, Edward Griswold, Quinby Perch, Norval Larkin, and Reginald Prescott.

Algy wants us to include that the group is named after his grandfather, a Shakespearian scholar, and not after him. He really gets rather cross when people accuse him of naming the group after himself.

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The Huddleston Players

Organized by Algernon Huddleston (the one on the bottom left who looks like he's just woken up) in the early 1860s and named for his grandfather, an amateur Shakespearean scholar, the Huddleston Players are a comedy troupe made up of Oxford and Cambridge graduates who are all members of the Society for the Preservation of Comedy and Satire. (Don't tell anyone that the SPCS exists, though, it's a secret.)

L-R, first row: Edward Griswold, Reginald Prescott L-R, second row: Norval Larkin (with friend Isaac Ives), Quinby Perch L-R, third row: Algernon Huddleston, Will Conrad