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searchaux" style="display:none">British theatre writer (1853–1907)</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about the theatre writer James Davis. For the New Zealand novelist with the same pseudonym, see <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Lusk" title="Hugh Lusk">Hugh Lusk</a>. For the Oregon State University building, see <a href="/wiki/Owen_Hall_(Oregon_State_University)" title="Owen Hall (Oregon State University)">Owen Hall (Oregon State University)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Owen_Hall.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Owen_Hall.jpg/220px-Owen_Hall.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="311" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Owen_Hall.jpg/330px-Owen_Hall.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Owen_Hall.jpg 2x" data-file-width="396" data-file-height="559" /></a><figcaption>Owen Hall</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hall-Edwardes-Jones.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cc/Hall-Edwardes-Jones.jpg/260px-Hall-Edwardes-Jones.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="298" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cc/Hall-Edwardes-Jones.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="295" data-file-height="338" /></a><figcaption>Hall (seated left) with <a href="/wiki/George_Edwardes" title="George Edwardes">George Edwardes</a> (c) and <a href="/wiki/Sidney_Jones_(composer)" title="Sidney Jones (composer)">Sidney Jones</a></figcaption></figure> <p><b>Owen Hall</b> (10 April 1853 – 9 April 1907) was the principal pen name of the Irish-born theatre writer, racing correspondent, theatre critic and <a href="/wiki/Solicitor" title="Solicitor">solicitor</a>, <b>James Davis</b>, when writing for the stage. After his successive careers in law and journalism, Hall wrote the librettos for a series of extraordinarily successful <a href="/wiki/Edwardian_musical_comedy" title="Edwardian musical comedy">musical comedies</a> in the 1890s and the first decade of the 1900s, including <i><a href="/wiki/A_Gaiety_Girl" title="A Gaiety Girl">A Gaiety Girl</a>, <a href="/wiki/An_Artist%27s_Model" title="An Artist's Model">An Artist's Model</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Geisha" title="The Geisha">The Geisha</a>, <a href="/wiki/A_Greek_Slave" title="A Greek Slave">A Greek Slave</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Florodora" title="Florodora">Florodora</a></i>. Despite his achievements, Hall was constantly in financial distress because of his gambling and extravagant lifestyle; his pseudonym was a <a href="/wiki/Pun" title="Pun">pun</a> on "owing all". </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life_and_career">Life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Owen_Hall&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Born in a Jewish household, Hall was the eldest son of an English dentist who practised in <a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a> and later became a portrait photographer in London, Hyman Davis (1824–1875), and his wife Isabella (1824–1900), whose maiden name was also Davis.<sup id="cite_ref-Endelman_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Endelman-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Davis family returned to London in the 1850s,<sup id="cite_ref-Endelman_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Endelman-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and James graduated from <a href="/wiki/University_College_London" title="University College London">University College London</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Laws" title="Bachelor of Laws">Bachelor of Laws</a> in 1869.<sup id="cite_ref-Jacobs_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jacobs-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among his eight siblings were <a href="/wiki/Julia_Frankau" title="Julia Frankau">Julia</a>, a successful novelist under the name "Frank Danby", who married businessman <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Frankau" title="Arthur Frankau">Arthur Frankau</a> and was the mother of the author <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Frankau" title="Gilbert Frankau">Gilbert Frankau</a> and the comedian <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Frankau" title="Ronald Frankau">Ronald Frankau</a> and grandmother of the novelist <a href="/wiki/Pamela_Frankau" title="Pamela Frankau">Pamela Frankau</a> and the actress <a href="/wiki/Rosemary_Frankau" title="Rosemary Frankau">Rosemary Frankau</a>; <a href="/wiki/Eliza_Davis" title="Eliza Davis">Eliza</a>, who was the journalist "Mrs. Aria" and long-time lover of the actor <a href="/wiki/Henry_Irving" title="Henry Irving">Henry Irving</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Harrie (1864–1920), who became a journalist in the US;<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Florence ("Florette") a novelist<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who married <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Evelyn_Collins" title="Marcus Evelyn Collins">Marcus E. Collins</a>, brother of <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Collins_(theatre_manager)" title="Arthur Collins (theatre manager)">Arthur Collins</a>, the manager of the <a href="/wiki/Theatre_Royal,_Drury_Lane" title="Theatre Royal, Drury Lane">Theatre Royal, Drury Lane</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1870s, Hall (still known as James Davis) married Esther Josephine (<i>née</i> Da Costa Andrade, 1854–1946)<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and had three children, Isabelle Davis (1877–1935), Hyman Davis (1878–1950) and Dorothy Davis (1880–1963).<sup id="cite_ref-Endelman_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Endelman-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Isabel married Gerald Benjamin, the son of mayor <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Benjamin" title="Benjamin Benjamin">Benjamin Benjamin</a> of Melbourne, in 1912.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hyman married Helen Davis (so she didn't change surname) in 1914.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dorothy married a Belgian diplomat, Baron Marie-Georges-Gérard-Léon le Maire de Warzée d'Hermalle (1877–1931), and wrote of her travels in Persia, <i>Peeps into Persia</i> (1913), under the name of Dorothy de Warzée.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_career">Early career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Owen_Hall&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cover_of_the_Vocal_Score_of_Sidney_Jones%27_The_Geisha.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Cover_of_the_Vocal_Score_of_Sidney_Jones%27_The_Geisha.jpg/170px-Cover_of_the_Vocal_Score_of_Sidney_Jones%27_The_Geisha.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Cover_of_the_Vocal_Score_of_Sidney_Jones%27_The_Geisha.jpg/255px-Cover_of_the_Vocal_Score_of_Sidney_Jones%27_The_Geisha.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Cover_of_the_Vocal_Score_of_Sidney_Jones%27_The_Geisha.jpg/340px-Cover_of_the_Vocal_Score_of_Sidney_Jones%27_The_Geisha.jpg 2x" data-file-width="822" data-file-height="1059" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/The_Geisha" title="The Geisha">The Geisha</a></i> vocal score</figcaption></figure> <p>After practising from 1874 to 1886 as a solicitor, Hall gave up the law in favour of journalism, starting a newspaper called <i>Pan</i>, which "went to popularity and thence through an inexperienced direction to death",<sup id="cite_ref-Aria15_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Aria15-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> after which he "owned and edited in turn <i>The Bat</i> [1885–87], <i>The Cuckoo</i> and <i>The Phoenix</i> [after 1899], whilst writing industriously [and caustically] for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sporting_Times" title="The Sporting Times">The Sporting Times</a></i> many paragraphs on ... racing, and dramatic criticisms, under the signature 'Stalled Ox'."<sup id="cite_ref-Jacobs_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jacobs-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BMT_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BMT-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also wrote for <i><a href="/wiki/Truth_(British_periodical)" title="Truth (British periodical)">Truth</a>, The World, <a href="/wiki/The_Illustrated_London_News" title="The Illustrated London News">The Illustrated London News</a></i> and the <i>Ladies' Pictorial</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was assistant editor of <a href="/wiki/Giovanni_Antonio_Galignani" title="Giovanni Antonio Galignani">Galignani</a>'s <i>Messenger</i> from 1888 to 1890.<sup id="cite_ref-Jacobs_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jacobs-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hall and his sisters had been friendly with <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Wilde" title="Oscar Wilde">Oscar Wilde</a> and his brother William, but Hall later became a harsh critic of Wilde.<sup id="cite_ref-Aria15_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Aria15-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hall was, for a time, interested in politics and ran (unsuccessfully) against the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> statesman <a href="/wiki/Charles_Russell,_Baron_Russell_of_Killowen" title="Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen">Charles Russell</a> for the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">Parliamentary seat</a> of <a href="/wiki/Dundalk" title="Dundalk">Dundalk</a> in the 1880 election.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The change of career from critic to librettist came after he expressed a harsh view of a <a href="/wiki/George_Edwardes" title="George Edwardes">George Edwardes</a> production, <i><a href="/wiki/In_Town_(musical)" class="mw-redirect" title="In Town (musical)">In Town</a></i> (1892); the producer challenged Hall to do better. The result was the hit of the West End theatre season, <i><a href="/wiki/A_Gaiety_Girl" title="A Gaiety Girl">A Gaiety Girl</a></i> (1893), with music by <a href="/wiki/Sidney_Jones_(composer)" title="Sidney Jones (composer)">Sidney Jones</a> and lyrics by <a href="/wiki/Harry_Greenbank" title="Harry Greenbank">Harry Greenbank</a>. Hall's satirical book included lines that jabbed in the style of an upmarket gossip columnist.<sup id="cite_ref-BMT_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BMT-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The smart society back-chat was very popular with audiences, and <i>A Gaiety Girl</i> has a claim to being the first true musical comedy. Hall's next libretto was for <i><a href="/wiki/An_Artist%27s_Model" title="An Artist's Model">An Artist's Model</a></i> (1895), another success for the same writing team. He repeated the snappy dialogue style of the previous work, but joined it with a romantic plot, which Hall added at the last minute after Edwardes hired the star <a href="/wiki/Marie_Tempest" title="Marie Tempest">Marie Tempest</a>, for whom Hall quickly wrote a new role. The result established the formula for two further extraordinary successes by Hall and his collaborators at <a href="/wiki/Daly%27s_Theatre" title="Daly's Theatre">Daly's Theatre</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BMT_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BMT-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first of these was <i><a href="/wiki/The_Geisha" title="The Geisha">The Geisha</a></i> (1896), which became the biggest international hit in musical theatre history, playing for 760 performances in its original London run and enjoying numerous international productions.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The next collaboration for Hall, Jones and Greenbank was another popular work for Daly's, <i><a href="/wiki/A_Greek_Slave" title="A Greek Slave">A Greek Slave</a></i> (1898).<sup id="cite_ref-BMT_17-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BMT-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1096940132">.mw-parser-output .listen .side-box-text{line-height:1.1em}.mw-parser-output .listen-plain{border:none;background:transparent}.mw-parser-output .listen-embedded{width:100%;margin:0;border-width:1px 0 0 0;background:transparent}.mw-parser-output .listen-header{padding:2px}.mw-parser-output .listen-embedded .listen-header{padding:2px 0}.mw-parser-output .listen-file-header{padding:4px 0}.mw-parser-output .listen .description{padding-top:2px}.mw-parser-output .listen .mw-tmh-player{max-width:100%}@media(max-width:719px){.mw-parser-output .listen{clear:both}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .listen:not(.listen-noimage){width:320px}.mw-parser-output .listen-left{overflow:visible;float:left}.mw-parser-output .listen-center{float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right listen noprint"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Gnome-mime-audio-openclipart.svg/50px-Gnome-mime-audio-openclipart.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="50" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Gnome-mime-audio-openclipart.svg/75px-Gnome-mime-audio-openclipart.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Gnome-mime-audio-openclipart.svg/100px-Gnome-mime-audio-openclipart.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="160" data-file-height="160" /></span><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><div class="listen-header">Music from <a href="/wiki/Leslie_Stuart" title="Leslie Stuart">Leslie Stuart</a> and Owen Hall's <i><a href="/wiki/Florodora" title="Florodora">Florodora</a></i> (1899)</div> <div class="haudio"> <div class="listen-file-header"><a href="/wiki/File:Florodora_-_Tell_me_pretty_maiden.ogg" title="File:Florodora - Tell me pretty maiden.ogg">"Tell me pretty maiden"</a></div> <div><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_0" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="232" style="width:232px;" data-durationhint="123" data-mwtitle="Florodora_-_Tell_me_pretty_maiden.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Florodora_-_Tell_me_pretty_maiden.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a8/Florodora_-_Tell_me_pretty_maiden.ogg/Florodora_-_Tell_me_pretty_maiden.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span></div> <div class="description"><a href="/wiki/Edison_Records" title="Edison Records">Edison Records</a>, c. 1908: "Edison Sextette": <a href="/wiki/Ada_Jones" title="Ada Jones">Ada Jones</a>, George S. Lenox, Corinne Morgan, Grace Nelson, Bob Roberts and Frank C. Stanley</div></div><hr /><div class="haudio"> <div class="listen-file-header"><a href="/wiki/File:Florodora_-_In_the_shade_of_the_palm.ogg" title="File:Florodora - In the shade of the palm.ogg">"In the shade of the palm"</a></div> <div><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_1" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="232" style="width:232px;" data-durationhint="124" data-mwtitle="Florodora_-_In_the_shade_of_the_palm.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Florodora_-_In_the_shade_of_the_palm.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/54/Florodora_-_In_the_shade_of_the_palm.ogg/Florodora_-_In_the_shade_of_the_palm.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span></div> <div class="description">Edison Records, 1902: Frank C. Stanley</div></div></div></div> <div class="side-box-abovebelow"><hr /><i class="selfreference">Problems playing these files? See <a href="/wiki/Help:Media" title="Help:Media">media help</a>.</i></div> </div> <p>Hall declared bankruptcy first at the age of 29, during his early career as a <a href="/wiki/Solicitor" title="Solicitor">solicitor</a>, having run up debts of more than £27,000. He was back in bankruptcy court six years later, in 1888. Even after his theatrical success and high salary from Edwardes, he was bankrupt again in 1898.<sup id="cite_ref-BMT_17-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BMT-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His constant financial trouble stemmed from his gambling and extravagant entertaining of his friends. The pseudonym "Owen Hall" was an ironic nod ("owin' all") towards his extensive debts, as was another of his pseudonyms, "Payne Nunn" ("payin' none").<sup id="cite_ref-BMT_17-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BMT-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His sister Eliza recalled: "As a lawyer he gave advice freely to his friends; as a racehorse owner he indulged his prodigal proclivities in the world of hangers-on; during his editorial and play-writing epochs he was lavish in his hospitality ... and he voiced his belief that he 'had enjoyed every experience except death and solvency'."<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She wrote that, during his bankruptcy proceedings, Hall quipped <a href="/wiki/Redeemer_(Christianity)" title="Redeemer (Christianity)">irreverently</a>: "Now I know that my <a href="/wiki/Receivership" title="Receivership">Receiver</a> liveth".<sup id="cite_ref-Aria20_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Aria20-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His nephew Gilbert recalled that Hall said: "You can trust me with anything except a pretty girl or a <a href="/wiki/Sovereign_(British_coin)" title="Sovereign (British coin)">sovereign</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-Aria20_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Aria20-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Grave_of_James_Davis_(Owen_Hall)_in_Highgate_Cemetery.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Grave_of_James_Davis_%28Owen_Hall%29_in_Highgate_Cemetery.jpg/170px-Grave_of_James_Davis_%28Owen_Hall%29_in_Highgate_Cemetery.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Grave_of_James_Davis_%28Owen_Hall%29_in_Highgate_Cemetery.jpg/255px-Grave_of_James_Davis_%28Owen_Hall%29_in_Highgate_Cemetery.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Grave_of_James_Davis_%28Owen_Hall%29_in_Highgate_Cemetery.jpg/340px-Grave_of_James_Davis_%28Owen_Hall%29_in_Highgate_Cemetery.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2913" data-file-height="2889" /></a><figcaption>Hall's grave in <a href="/wiki/Highgate_Cemetery" title="Highgate Cemetery">Highgate Cemetery</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Florodora_and_later_years"><i>Florodora</i> and later years</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Owen_Hall&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Florodora and later years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hall wrote the musical <i><a href="/wiki/Florodora" title="Florodora">Florodora</a></i> (1899) for producer Tom Davis, which was set to music by <a href="/wiki/Leslie_Stuart" title="Leslie Stuart">Leslie Stuart</a>, and the piece became another record-setting international hit, running for 455 performances in London, and then 552 performances in New York, followed by other international productions and revivals.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hall wrote several more works in the new century, including two more musicals for Davis: <i>The Silver Slipper</i> (1901) with Stuart, and the unsuccessful <i>The Medal and the Maid</i> (1903) with Jones. For Edwardes, he wrote "perhaps the most delightful of all his libretti" and his last big success, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Girl_from_Kays" title="The Girl from Kays">The Girl from Kays</a></i> (1902), and later <i>The Little Cherub</i> (1906). A 1904 piece was <i>Sergeant Brue</i>, written with <a href="/wiki/Liza_Lehmann" title="Liza Lehmann">Liza Lehmann</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BMT_17-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BMT-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He died in <a href="/wiki/Harrogate" title="Harrogate">Harrogate</a>, one day short of his 54th birthday,<sup id="cite_ref-BMT_17-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BMT-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was buried in <a href="/wiki/Highgate_Cemetery" title="Highgate Cemetery">Highgate Cemetery</a>, north London,<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Owen_Hall&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Endelman-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Endelman_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Endelman_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Endelman_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Todd_Endelman" title="Todd Endelman">Endelman, Todd M</a>. 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British Musical Theatre, accessed 26 July 2011</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19070410&id=cVsuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IH8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=6240,4313713">"Death of Owen Hall"</a>, <i>The Montreal Gazette</i>, 13 April 1907, p. 4, accessed 18 January 2013</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Danby, Frank (Julia Frankau). <i>The Sphinx's Lawyer</i>, Heinemann (1906), Dedication "To My Brother 'Owen Hall'"; and Stetz, Margaret D. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oscholars.com/TO/Specials/Wilde/Stetz.htm">"'To Defend the Undefendable': Oscar Wilde and the Davis Family"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111002120914/http://www.oscholars.com/TO/Specials/Wilde/Stetz.htm">Archived</a> 2 October 2011 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i>The Oscholars</i> Special Issue: "Oscar Wilde, Jews and the <i>Fin-du-Siecle</i>", Summer 2010, accessed 12 January 2013</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Frankau, p. 112</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">His sister Eliza was engaged for part of her career as such a columnist. 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"Reviving a Legend of Musical Theatre", The Patter Post, Lyric Theatre, San Jose, California, May 2009, pp. 6–10</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000174/19070415/086/0005">"Funeral of Mr 'Owen Hall'"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Morning_Post" title="The Morning Post">The Morning Post</a></i>, 15 April 1907, p. 5, accessed 29 November 2017, via <a href="/wiki/British_Newspaper_Archive" title="British Newspaper Archive">British Newspaper Archive</a> <span style="font-size:0.95em; font-size:95%; color: var( --color-subtle, #555 )">(subscription required)</span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Owen_Hall&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAria1922" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Eliza_Davis" title="Eliza Davis">Aria, Mrs. Eliza Davis</a> (1922). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/mysentimentalsel00ariauoft"><i>My Sentimental Self</i></a>. London: Chapman & Hall.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=My+Sentimental+Self&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Chapman+%26+Hall&rft.date=1922&rft.aulast=Aria&rft.aufirst=Mrs.+Eliza+Davis&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fmysentimentalsel00ariauoft&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOwen+Hall" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFrankau1940" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Frankau" title="Gilbert Frankau">Frankau, Gilbert</a> (1940). <i>Self-Portrait: A Novel of His Own Life</i>. London: Hutchinson.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Self-Portrait%3A+A+Novel+of+His+Own+Life&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Hutchinson&rft.date=1940&rft.aulast=Frankau&rft.aufirst=Gilbert&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOwen+Hall" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Owen_Hall&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Alan_Hyman" title="Alan Hyman">Hyman, Alan</a> (1978). <i>Sullivan and His Satellites</i>. London: Chappell.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Sullivan+and+His+Satellites&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Chappell&rft.date=1978&rft.aulast=Hyman&rft.aufirst=Alan&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOwen+Hall" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Owen_Hall&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/7982">Owen Hall</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Broadway_Database" title="Internet Broadway Database">Internet Broadway Database</a></li> <li>Kenrick, John. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.musicals101.com/who22.htm">Profile 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