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Frederick Lonsdale

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Book Writer 1881–1954

Frederick Lonsdale (5 February 1881 – 4 April 1954) was a British playwright known for his librettos to several successful musicals early in the 20th century, including King of Cadonia (1908), The Balkan Princess (1910), Betty (1915), The Maid of the Mountains (1917), Monsieur Beaucaire (1919) and Madame Pompadour (1923). He also wrote comedy plays, including Aren't We All? (1923), The Last of Mrs Cheyney (1925) and On Approval (1927) and the murder melodrama But for the Grace of God (1946). Some of his plays and musicals were made into films, and he also wrote a few screenplays. Born and raised in Jersey, Lonsdale began writing comic sketches while serving in the army. His first play, Who's…

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  • The other big hit of the war, The Maid of the Mountains (1917; music by James Tate, lyrics by Harry Graham, book by Frederick Lonsdale), was set in the high mountains of a brigand land. The story centred on Teresa, the ‘maid of the mountains’, who is arrested by General Malona, the Governor of Santo. Malona has promised her release only i…ebooks/Music, The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To/Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music), The - The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To Music.txt
  • countrv-houseparty satire Frederick Lonsdale. Yet curiouslv she and he were only ever once to he united, and then for an uninspired him version of histheatre-pdfs/Gertrude Lawrence - Sheridan Morley.txt
  • Paramount British; dir. Harry Lachman; from the play by Frederick Lonsdale. Lord Camber’s Ladies with Gerald du Maurier, Benita Hume, Nigeltheatre-pdfs/Gertrude Lawrence - Sheridan Morley.txt
  • Ina Claire and Hugh Williams in Frederick Lonsdale's Once is Enough. New York, Henry Miller's Theatre, 1938. [Photograph by Vandamm. Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations]theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
  • AREN'T WE ALL? By Frederick Lonsdale; Director. Clifford Williams; Presented hy Douglas Urbanski. Karl Allison. Bryan Bantry James M. Nederlundcr m association v\ith Duncan C. Weldon with Paul Gregg. Lionel Becker and Jerome Mmskotl; Sets. Finaly James; Costumes. Judith Bland; Lighting, Natasha Km/: Sound. Jan Neho/cnko. Casting. .theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1984-85 Season, v. 41 (Willis).txt
  • By Frederick Lonsdale; Director, Clifford Williams; Sets, Finaly James; Costumes, Judith Bland; Lighting, Natasha Katz; Sound, Jan Nebozenko; Casting, Hughes.'theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1985-86 Season, v. 42 (Willis).txt

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