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Owen Hall

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Book Writer 1853–1907

Owen Hall (10 April 1853 – 9 April 1907) was the principal pen name of the Irish-born theatre writer, racing correspondent, theatre critic and solicitor, James Davis, when writing for the stage. After his successive careers in law and journalism, Hall wrote the librettos for a series of extraordinarily successful musical comedies in the 1890s and the first decade of the 1900s, including A Gaiety Girl, An Artist's Model, The Geisha, A Greek Slave and Florodora. Despite his achievements, Hall was constantly in financial distress because of his gambling and extravagant lifestyle; his pseudonym was a pun on "owing all".

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Florodora

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  • garian setting in which two girls who look alike (played by one actress) help one another in their respective love affairs. Musical numbers: "Always Do as People Say You Should," "Romany Life," "Gypsy Jan," "Hungary Hussars," "Ho, Ye Townsmen," "Serenades of All Nations," "The Lily and the Nightingale," "Gypsy Love Song (Little Gypsy Swee…theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt

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