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On leaving school he entered an architect's office, and started to write plays. After many failures he at last succeeded in getting an adaptation--Dr Davy --Produced at the Lyceum (1866). His most successful piece, ''Two Roses'', a comedy, was produced at the Vaudeville in 1870, in which Sir Henry Irving made one of his earliest London successes as Digby Grant. He was the author of a large number of other plays and adaptations, including ''Jingle'' (a version of ''Pickwick''), produced at the Lyceum in 1878, and ''Pink Dominos'' ( 1877 ), a Farce which was one of a series of adaptations from the French which he made for the Criterion theatre, where his wife, the well-known actress, Mary Moore,played the leading parts. REFERENCES |
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