The Haymarket's managers Frederick Harrison (who was sole lessee) and Cyril Maude remained through the first year of the 20th century. In 1904, the auditorium was redesigned in Louis XVI style by C. Stanley Peach. The following year, Maude acquired the Playhouse Theatre by Charing Cross Station, leaving Harrison in sole control. In 1909, Herbert Trench produced Maurice Maeterlinck's "The Blue Bird". Productions from then to the end of World War I included "Bunty Pulls the Strings" (1911), a Scottish comedy by Graham Moffat, which ran for 617 performances with Jimmy Finlayson in the lead; Ibsen's "Ghosts" (1914); "Elegant Edward", with Henry Daniell as P. C. Hodson (1915); "The Widow's Might" (1916), a comedy by Leonard Huskinson and Christopher Sandeman, with Henry Daniell. and "General Post", a comedy by J. E. Harold Terry, which opened on 14 March 1917 and ran for 532 performances, again with Daniell.