Jefferson Trilby and the London Stage

The story of how luvvie actor Herbert Willemott encountered one of the worst playwrights of the age, Jefferson Trilby."One of the most persistent and thick-skinned pretenders to the art was an individual named Jefferson Trilby, a man of good stature and a glimmering of wit, who always seemed to find in everything an ingredient which would turn him from a cause for optimism into a reason to boil one’s own head."