 Actors who played the Rev Robert Spalding included Herbert Beerbohm Tree, W. S. Penley, Frank Thornton, and James Finlayson.Edward Everett Horton played Spalding in the 1935 British film version of the play, directed by Henry Edwards.Two impecunious young men of good family, Harry Marsland and Douglas Cattermole, plot to escape their creditors with the unwitting help of the innocent young clergyman, Robert Spalding.