Harry Girard was a well-known vaudeville actor and composer in Seattle during the first quarter of the twentieth century. Girard first gained notoriety as a composer of comedic, musical operettas, which revolved around a Northwestern-frontier theme very popular with the audiences of the region. In addition to composing these acts, Girard would also lend his baritone singing voice to the productions, in counter-point to the soprano of his wife, Agnes Cain Brown.

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On December 28, 1907, Harry Girard and Company performed his Klondike-themed operetta "The Alaskan," as the opening show in the newly-constructed Moore Theatre. Though Girard and Company had performed the show a month earlier in Tacoma, the house was packed with 3,000 people, despite the 2,400-person capacity of the theatre.

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By the mid-nineteen-twenties, Agnes and Harry's acting company had begun performing more wholly vaudevillian performances; the last mention of the acting company in the Seattle Times mentions them returning to headline at the Pantages Theatre on July 25th, 1926, with a "singing and dancing revue".

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