Christopher Vernon Hassall (24 March 1912 – 25 April 1963) was an English actor, dramatist, librettist, lyricist and poet, who found his greatest fame...
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businessmen. Her grandfather, John Hassall, and her aunt, Joan Hassall, worked as illustrators, while her father, Christopher Hassall, was a poet, dramatist and...
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recording two decades of correspondence with his friend and biographer, Christopher Hassall. Marsh advised Somerset Maugham about his writing between 1935 and...
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style of operetta and often composed his music to the libretti of Christopher Hassall. In the 1920s he turned to acting, first in British films and then...
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Graves - I. Sutherland Groom - Thomas Hardy - Phyllis Hartnoll - Christopher Hassall - A. P. Herbert - Gerard Manley Hopkins - E. V. Knox - D. H. Lawrence...
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which was adapted and arranged by Ronald Hanmer. The other is by Christopher Hassall, based on the edition by Ludwig Doblinger, Vienna. The Park version...
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Webb. Her letters show how close she was to her younger brother, Christopher Hassall, and his early death affected her greatly. She addressed him as 'Topher'...
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Hepburn. A musical theatre adaptation, Dear Miss Phoebe, written by Christopher Hassall and Harry Parr Davies, premiered in 1950. The play was so popular...
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chemist and microscopist Cedric Hassall, New Zealand chemist Charlie Hassall (1863–?), English footballer Christopher Hassall (1912–1963), English actor,...
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The Dancing Years (category Musicals by Christopher Hassall)
Years is a musical with book and music by Ivor Novello and lyrics by Christopher Hassall, set in Vienna, from 1911 until 1938. It follows a Jewish composer...
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until he was 19. Around this time he met Christopher Hassall, a fellow student at Brighton College. Hassall, who also went on to have a successful stage...
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Kallmann Choir in 1962) and South Africa. A version with lyrics by poet Christopher Hassall called "Where the Gentle Avon Flows" was released, and the work also...
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Edith Evans as the Nurse. The rest of the cast were students, led by Christopher Hassall as Romeo, and included Devine, William Devlin and Terence Rattigan...
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orchestral arrangement that also featured Christopher Northam's piano. In addition to the vocal performances, Christopher Northam recorded Novello's "Waltz of...
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version called "Where the Gentle Avon Flows", with lyrics by the poet Christopher Hassall. A reggae version of the tune, "Elizabethan Reggae", was performed...
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and Cressida soloists, chorus and orchestra in 3 acts; libretto by Christopher Hassall after Geoffrey Chaucer; revised 1963 and 1976 Opera 1967 The Bear...
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King's Rhapsody (category Musicals by Christopher Hassall)
Rhapsody is a musical with book and music by Ivor Novello and lyrics by Christopher Hassall. The musical was first produced at the Palace Theatre, London, on...
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former member of The Pipettes Tim Hadcock-Mackay, TV shows presenter Christopher Hassall (1912–1963), writer and librettist Tony Hawks (born c.1960), comedian...
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Fanny Burney (Fanny Burney) — 1959 Morris West, The Devil's Advocate Christopher Hassall, Edward Marsh (Edward Marsh) — 1960 Rex Warner, Imperial Caesar Canon...
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(1934–2020, South Africa/England) Walter Hasenclever (1890–1940, Germany) Christopher Hassall (1912–1963, England) Michael Hastings (1938–2011, England) Jeffrey...
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explanations, concluding that infectious disease was "the best predictor". Christopher Hassall and Thomas Sherratt repeated the analysis, and concluded "that infectious...
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opera Troilus and Cressida. On the advice of the BBC, he invited Christopher Hassall to write the libretto. This did not help Walton's relations with...
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in Walmer, Kent on 21 May 1868, the eldest son of Lieutenant Christopher Clark Hassall R. N., of a Cheshire family of wine-merchants, and his wife, Louisa...
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The English translation printed in the 1963 miniature score is by Christopher Hassall. The one in the full score is by Chester Kallman.[citation needed]...
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The Short Sharp life of T. E. Hulme (2002), pp. 111–3 and 236-7. Christopher Hassall, Rupert Brooke: A Biography (1964), pp. 376–9. Obscurantism in modern...
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Anna Kraus (opera) (category Libretti by Christopher Hassall)
Franz Reizenstein. The work uses an English language libretto by Christopher Hassall to tell the tragic tale of a German woman who is forced to leave...
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Rivkin and P. J. Wolfson The Dancing Years 1939 West End Ivor Novello Christopher Hassall Ivor Novello Dangerous Games 1989 Broadway Willian Finn Astor Piazzolla...
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Poems and Contradictions (1945) New Poems 1954 (with Laurie Lee and Christopher Hassall) (1954) The Kite (1936) We're Not Going To Do Nothing: A Reply to...
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almost the whole length of a building parallel with the chapel. Here Christopher Hassall read his poem to the boys and held them spellbound as the stars shone...
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Glamorous Night (category Musicals by Christopher Hassall)
two acts with a book and music by Ivor Novello and lyrics by Christopher Hassall. Hassall was Novello's collaborator in six of the eight musicals Novello...
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