Kenyon Nicholson’s first Broadway success was “The Barker,” which was produced by Charles L. Wagner and Edgar Selwyn at the Biltmore Theater in January, 1927. Walter Huston played the lead, Nifty Miller, the manager of a traveling tent show who is surprised when his son quits school to join the show.
Kenyon Nicholson's first Broadway success was "The Barker," which premiered at the Biltmore Theater in January 1927 with Charles L. Wagner and Edgar Selwyn as producers, starring Walter Huston as Nifty Miller, a traveling circus manager whose son leaves school to join the show.