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    Miss Hook of Holland is an English musical comedy (styled a "Dutch Musical Incident") in two acts, with music and lyrics by Paul Rubens with a book by...
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    Isabel Jay (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music)
    Véronique, The White Chrysanthemum, The Girl Behind the Counter, Miss Hook of Holland, King of Cadonia and The Balkan Princess. She retired in 1911 at age...
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    Isabel Jay hits Miss Hook of Holland (1907, its matinee version, Little Miss Hook of Holland was performed by children for children), King of Cadonia (1908)...
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  • Curaçao (liqueur) (category Pages with Dutch IPA)
    blue curaçao as Crème de Ciel ("cream of the sky"), most likely a reference to the 1907 musical Miss Hook of Holland. Senior & Co, a company started in Curaçao...
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    MacDonald starred or co-starred in The Belle of Mayfair (1906) with Valeska Suratt, Miss Hook of Holland (1908) with Bertram Wallis and The Mikado (1910)...
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    Runaway Girl, Three Little Maids, The School Girl, Lady Madcap, Miss Hook of Holland and Betty. He was successful in appearances on Broadway, as well...
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    after the Dutch Barn in the musical Miss Hook of Holland. Studholme Court, a council block, was later built on part of the site of the garden of Studholme's...
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    Frank Curzon (category Owners of Epsom Derby winners)
    musical comedies, including A Chinese Honeymoon (1903) and Miss Hook of Holland (1907; one of several successes starring his wife, Isabel Jay), and he later...
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    in Lehár's Der Rastelbinder at the Carltheater in Vienna, and in Miss Hook of Holland in Berlin in 1907. In 1906 she performed in a musical farce in German...
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  • Operatic and Musical Society. In 1925 she played the role of Mina in Miss Hook of Holland and the following year she played Franzi in A Waltz Dream where...
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    Paul Rubens (composer) (category Alumni of University College, Oxford)
    Blue Moon (1905), writing some of the most successful songs in these shows. He composed the hit musical Miss Hook of Holland (1907). Later compositions include...
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    Fairyland in 1901. After her schooling, she returned to the stage in Miss Hook of Holland in 1907. Her many stage appearances include roles in The Merry Widow...
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  • F. Pope Stamper (category Actors from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham)
    musical comedy Miss Hook of Holland at the Prince of Wales Theatre, creating the role of the Bandmaster; the musical enjoyed a run of 462 performances...
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    Walter Hyde (category Alumni of the Royal College of Music)
    Vuyt in Miss Hook of Holland when he impressed Percy Pitt who introduced him to Hans Richter. Richter was preparing for a 1908 production of Wagner's...
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    including the hit productions of The Merry Widow and Miss Hook of Holland. Act I – Scene 1 The Barracks, Rottenberg No. 1. Chorus of Soldiers – "Ein! zwei! drei...
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  • After the war, he played the juvenile lead in the 1945 revival of "Miss Hook of Holland" before returning to Toronto in 1948, where he started a second...
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  • London and Broadway productions The Merry Farmer Mannheim production Miss Hook of Holland London and Broadway productions Nelly Neil London production The...
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  • Fahlstrøms Theater in Kristiania, in Rubens' and Hurgon's musical comedy Miss Hook of Holland. He toured with Det Nye Teater, and was appointed at Trondhjems nationale...
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    Thomas A. Wise (category Members of The Lambs Club)
    Cherub (1906) Miss Hook of Holland (1907) A Gentleman from Mississippi (1908) An Old New Yorker (1911) The Silver Wedding (1913) The Song of Songs (1914)...
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    Austen Hurgon (category English people of Irish descent)
    at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London where, when Paul Rubens was indisposed due to ill health while working on Miss Hook of Holland, Hurgon quickly...
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    (A Chinese Honeymoon), Leslie Stuart (Florodora) and Paul Rubens (Miss Hook of Holland). Scores were constantly refreshed with "additional" or "specialty"...
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    New Aladdin (1906, also choreographed by Grattan), Venus (1906), Miss Hook of Holland (1907), and More (1915; for which he was also the lyricist). As a...
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  • Beggar (1907) and Miss Hook of Holland (1907–08), with Christie MacDonald.[citation needed] After this, Wallis starred in a series of successful London...
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  • and Pierre Veber (Central Theater, 1913) Gretchen in the operetta Miss Hook of Holland by Paul Rubens and Austen Hurgon (Central Theater, 1914) The chambermaid...
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    Phyllis Dare (category Singers from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea)
    her next series of shows, including The Girl from Utah at the Adelphi (1913, as Dora Manners), Miss Hook of Holland at the Prince of Wales's (1914 revival...
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    Dan Rolyat (category Actors from the London Borough of Lambeth)
    Rolyat appeared as Simon Slinks in a revival of another musical, Miss Hook of Holland. For the rest of his career he performed in variety and musical...
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  • Australia was Miss Hook of Holland, followed by a number of musicals, including The Arcadians, The Chocolate Soldier, Tom Jones and The Belle of Mayfair. Clarke...
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  • Jones 31 January – Miss Hook of Holland, with music and lyrics by Paul Rubens, and book by Austen Hurgon and Rubens, opens at the Prince of Wales Theatre;...
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    music groups founded by a group of British music lovers in the colonial Hong Kong. Aim at producing various kind of musical performance by the British...
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  • performing this role. Dorothy was born in Dersingham, Norfolk, the oldest daughter of Arthur Harry Cross, who was organist at St Mary Magdalene Church, Sandringham...
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