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The Beauty Of Bath
''The Beauty of Bath'' is a musical comedy with a book by Seymour Hicks and Cosmo Hamilton, lyrics by Charles H. Taylor (lyricist), C. H. Taylor and music by Herbert Haines; additional songs were provided by Jerome Kern (lyrics and music), F. Clifford Harris (lyrics) and P. G. Wodehouse (lyrics). Based loosely on the play ''David Garrick (play), David Garrick'', the story concerns a young woman from a noble family, who falls in love with an actor. She then meets a sailor who appears identical to the actor and mistakes him for the latter. Her father objects to a marriage with the actor, but when it turns out that she really loves the sailor, all objections fall away. The piece was produced by Charles Frohman, opened at the Aldwych Theatre on 19 March 1906, moved on 26 December 1906 to the newly built Gielgud Theatre, Hicks Theatre and ran for a total of 287 performances. It starred Hicks and his wife, Ellaline Terriss. Zena Dare later joined the cast, replacing Terriss. Roles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Haines
Herbert Edgar Haines (1880-1923) was a British composer of musicals and songs, including some pieces for silent films, in the early years of the 20th century. Haines's musicals, most by Ben Dauphinais, with lyrics by Charles H. Taylor (lyricist), included ''The Catch of the Season'' (1904), ''The Talk of the Town'' (1905), ''The Beauty of Bath ''The Beauty of Bath'' is a musical comedy with a book by Seymour Hicks and Cosmo Hamilton, lyrics by C. H. Taylor and music by Herbert Haines; additional songs were provided by Jerome Kern (lyrics and music), F. Clifford Harris (lyrics) and P ...'' (1906), ''My Darling'' (1907), and ''Pebbles on the Beach'' (1912). External links Lists five musicals composed by Haines English musical theatre composers English male composers 1880 births 1923 deaths 20th-century British male musicians {{UK-composer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lugg
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West End Musicals
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1906 Musicals
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The Play Pictorial
''The Play Pictorial'' was an English theatrical magazine that was published in London between 1902 and 1939. ''The Play Pictorial'' provided pictorial records of West End theatrical productions. Each issue described a single show, with descriptions of the plot, the costumes and the sets, and many photographs of the cast and scenes from the production. For musicals, ''The Play Pictorial'' usually included some of the lyrics and short extracts from the score. The first editor of ''The Play Pictorial'' was Rudolph Birnbaum. In May 1904, he was replaced by Frank M. Boyd. In 1905, Fred Dangerfield became editor, handling the next 20 issues. In 1905, ''The Play Pictorial'' merged with a rival magazine, ''The Play'', which had been published between May and October 1904 under the editorship of Benjamin William Findon. In mid-1906, Findon took over the combined magazine, which he continued to edit for over 30 years. The last issue of ''The Play Pictorial'', no. 446, appeared in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Poulett, 7th Earl Poulett
William John Lydston Poulett, 7th Earl Poulett (11 September 1883 – 11 July 1918) was an English peer and British Army officer. Educated at Cheltenham College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he was the son of William Poulett, 6th Earl Poulett, by his third wife, Rosa, a daughter of Alfred Hugh de Melville."POULETT, 7th Earl" in ''Who Was Who'', online edition by Oxford University Press, 2014, accessed 3 August 2016 He was known by the courtesy title of Viscount Hinton until on the death of his father in 1899 when he inherited the earldom of Poulett and an estate at |
Richard Usborne
Richard Alexander Usborne (16 May 1910 – 21 March 2006) was a journalist, advertising executive, schoolmaster and author. After the publication of his book ''Wodehouse at Work'' in 1961 he became regarded as the leading authority on the works of P. G. Wodehouse. He published or contributed to nine more books on the subject. He adapted eight Wodehouse novels and several other of the author's works for broadcast on BBC radio between 1979 and 1996. Biography Early years Richard Usborne was born on 16 May 1910 at Simla, in British India, the son of Charles Frederick Usborne, a member of the Indian Civil Service, and his wife Janet Muriel, ''née'' Lefroy."Usborne, Richard Alexander" ''Who's Who''. Retrieved 28 January 2021 He was educated in England at |
Edwardian Musical Comedies
Edwardian musical comedy was a form of British musical theatre that extended beyond the reign of King Edward VII in both directions, beginning in the early 1890s, when the Gilbert and Sullivan operas' dominance had ended, until the rise of the American musicals by Jerome Kern, Rodgers and Hart, George Gershwin and Cole Porter following the First World War. Between '' In Town'' in 1892 and ''The Maid of the Mountains'', premiering in 1917, this new style of musical theatre became dominant on the musical stage in Britain and the rest of the English-speaking world. The popularity of ''In Town'' and ''A Gaiety Girl'' (1893), led to an astonishing number of hits over the next three decades, the most successful of which included ''The Shop Girl'' (1894), ''The Geisha'' (1896), ''Florodora'' (1899), '' A Chinese Honeymoon'' (1901), ''The Earl and the Girl'' (1903), '' The Arcadians'' (1909), ''Our Miss Gibbs'' (1909), ''The Quaker Girl'' (1910), ''Betty'' (1914), ''Chu Chin Chow'' (191 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaiety Girls
Gaiety Girls were the chorus girls in Edwardian musical comedies, beginning in the 1890s at the Gaiety Theatre, London, in the shows produced by George Edwardes. The popularity of this genre of musical theatre depended, in part, on the beautiful dancing corps of "Gaiety Girls" appearing onstage in bathing attire and in the latest fashions. The 1890s Gaiety Girls were respectable, elegant young ladies, unlike the actresses from London's earlier musical burlesques. Later, even the stars of these musical comedies were referred to as Gaiety Girls. Description Fashion icons An American newspaper reviewing ''A Gaiety Girl'' in 1894 explained the importance of the Gaiety Girls: "The piece is a mixture of pretty girls, English humor, singing, dancing and bathing machines and dresses of the English fashion. The dancing is a special feature of the performance, English burlesques giving much more attention to that feature of their attractiveness than the American entertainments of the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Topsy Sinden
Harriet Augusta Sinden (1877–1950), known professionally as Topsy Sinden, was an English dancer, actress and singer. She was best known for her performances in Edwardian musical comedy and pantomime, both in London and on tour. Sinden was an accomplished tap dancer and skirt dancer. Life and career Sinden was born and raised in London. According to the 1901 census, her parents were Augustus Sinden, a musician, and his wife Harriet. Her brother was the actor and dancer Bert Sinden (1879–1911).These dates are based upon London census records. Her nickname was "Topsy" from an early age. She was a distant cousin of the actor Sir Donald Sinden. Early career Sinden began to perform as a small child in entertainments at St. James's Hall and made her professional debut at age six, in 1884, as a little dancer in a fairy play at the Royalty Theatre, followed shortly by a pantomime of ''Dick Whittington'' at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and by engagements at other West End theatres. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maudi Darrell
Maudi Darrell (born Maud Rhoda Didcott, 10 February 1882 – 31 October 1910) was an English actress on the London and New York stages, and a performer in vaudeville. She was one of the fashionable young women known as "Gaiety Girls". Early life Maud Rhoda Didcott was born in London in 1882, the daughter of Hugh Jay Didcott and Rose Fox. Her father was a theatrical agent, and her mother was a dancer who had a novelty act involving singing while skipping rope. Her father was Jewish, but Maudi Didcott was educated at the Sion House Convent at Bayswater."Actress's Sad Fate" ''The Northwestern Advocate and Emu Bay Times'' (January 7, 1911): 2.via Her sister Violet Raye was also an actress. Career ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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