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Owen Hall
British theatre writer (1853–1907) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the theatre writer James Davis. For the New Zealand novelist with the same pseudonym, see Hugh Lusk. For the Oregon State University building, see Owen Hall (Oregon State University).
Owen Hall (10 April 1853 – 9 April 1907) was the principal pen name of the Irish-born theatre writer, racing correspondent, theatre critic and solicitor, James Davis, when writing for the stage. After his successive careers in law and journalism, Hall wrote the librettos for a series of extraordinarily successful musical comedies in the 1890s and the first decade of the 1900s, including A Gaiety Girl, An Artist's Model, The Geisha, A Greek Slave and Florodora. Despite his achievements, Hall was constantly in financial distress because of his gambling and extravagant lifestyle; his pseudonym was a pun on "owing all".
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