Middleton, George (1880–1967), playwright. Born in Paterson, New Jersey, he was the author of some twenty produced plays, the best remembered of which were written with Guy Bolton: Polly with a Past (1917) and Adam and Eva (1919). Before these he wrote Hit‐the‐Trail Holliday with Bolton in 1915, although George M. Cohan substantially rewrote it and took full credit when the play was produced. Middleton was a founder of the Dramatists Guild. Autobiography: These Things Are Mine, 1947.




