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GRUNDY, SYDNEY (1848– )

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GRUNDY, See also:SYDNEY (1848– ) , See also:English dramatist, was See also:born at See also:Manchester on the 23rd of See also:March 1848, son of See also:Alderman See also:Charles Sydney Grundy. He was educated at See also:Owens See also:College, Manchester, and was called to the See also:bar in 1869, practising in Manchester until 1876. His See also:farce, A Little See also:Change, was produced at the Haymarket See also:Theatre in 1872. He became well known as an adapter of plays, among his See also:early successes in this direction being The Snowball (Strand Theatre, 1879) from Oscar, ou le See also:marl qui trompe sa femme by MM. See also:Scribe and Duvergne, and In See also:Honour See also:Bound (188o) from Scribe's tine Chaine. In 1887 he made a popular success with The Bells of See also:Haslemere, written with Mr H. Pettitt and produced at the Adelphi. In 1889–1890 he produced two ingenious See also:original comedies, A See also:White See also:Lie (See also:Court Theatre) and A See also:Fool's See also:Paradise (Gaiety Theatre), which had been played two years earlier at See also:Greenwich as The See also:Mouse-See also:Trap. These were followed by See also:Sowing the See also:Wind (See also:Comedy, 1893), An Old See also:Jew (See also:Garrick, 1894), and by an See also:adaptation of See also:Octave See also:Feuillet's Montjoye as A Bunch of Violets (Haymarket, 1894). In 1894 he produced The New Woman and The Slaves of the See also:Ring; in 1895, The Greatest of These, played by Mr and Mrs See also:Kendal at the Garrick Theatre; The Degenerates (Haymarket, 1899), and A See also:Debt of Honour (St See also:James's 1900). Among Mr Grundy's most successful adaptations were the charming Pair of See also:Spectacles (Garrick, 180o) from See also:Les Petits Oisesxux of MM. See also:Labiche and Delacour.

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Village See also:Priest (Haymarket, 1890) from 'Le See also:Secret de la terreuse, a See also:melodrama by MM. Busnach and Cauvin; A See also:Marriage of Convenience (Haymarket, 1897) from Un Mariage de See also:Louis X V, by Alex. See also:Dumas, Pere, The See also:Silver See also:Key (Her See also:Majesty's, 1897) from his Mlle de Belle-isle, and The Musqueteers (1899) from the same author's novel; Frocks and Frills (Haymarket, 1902) from the Doigts de fees of MM. Scribe and See also:Legouve; The See also:Garden of Lies (St James's Theatre, 1904) from Mr Justus See also:Miles See also:Forman's novel; Business is Business (His Majesty's Theatre, 1905), a rather See also:free adaptation from Octave See also:Mirbeau's Les Affaires sont les affaires; and The Diplomatists (See also:Royalty Theatre, 1905) from La Poudre aux yeux, by Labiche.

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