Humphrey Bogart in the stage play 'The Cradle Snatchers'

The Cradle Snatchers.
From the Music Box Theatre playbill.	When a wife (played by Kitty Ladd) finds her husband two-timing her with a young floozie during his supposed 'sporting weekends,' she and her two friends whose husbands are also involved in the adulterous escapades (played by Mary Boland and Ethel Drake) take revenge by setting up an evening for themselves with three young college boys (one of which, the character Jose Vallejo, is played by Bogie). But things don't go to plan when the three husbands walk in on the party. Thankfully the story pans out to a happy ending for all with the married couples suitably chastened and reunited and the boys off to chase single girls. The Sam H. Harris and Hassard Short produced comedy was hailed by Walter Winchell in the 'Graphic' as “unquestionably the funniest play in town” and many critics gave their greatest praise to the performance of Humphrey Bogart. This broadway production opened at the Music Box Theatre on September 7th, 1925 and ran for 332 performances, and was later adapted to the silver screen by Howard Hawks. The Cradle Snatchers was written by Russell Medcraft and Norma Mitchell.

The Cradle Snatchers.