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Leslie Stuart

April 14, 2023

Leslie Stuart (15 March 1863 – 27 March 1928) born Thomas Augustine Barrett[1] was an English composer of Edwardian musical comedy, best known for the hit show Florodora (1899) and many popular songs.

Leslie Stuart

He began in Manchester as a church organist, for 14 years, and taught music while beginning to compose church music and secular songs in the late 1870s. In the 1880s, he began to promote and conduct orchestral and vocal concerts of popular and theatre music as "Mr. T. A. Barrett's Concerts". He began to focus his composition on music hall, including songs for blackface performers, such as "Lily of Laguna"; songs for musical theatre, such as pantomimes and London shows touring through Manchester; and ballads such as "Soldiers of the King". Stuart later campaigned against the interpolation of new songs into musical theatre scores and for better enforcement of musical copyrights.

In 1895, Stuart began to write songs for George Edwardes's London shows at the Gaiety Theatre and Daly's Theatre. His first full musical comedy score was Florodora in 1899. The show became an international hit, and its song "Tell me, pretty maiden", became a vaudeville standard. Other musical comedy successes followed, including The School Girl (1903), The Belle of Mayfair (1906) and Havana (1908). Of his later shows, only Peggy made much of an impact. By 1911, Stuart's gambling debts sent him into bankruptcy. Unable to adapt to changing musical tastes, he was no longer in demand as a composer, although he had some success as a piano sketch artist in variety theatre.

Life and career

Early years

Stuart was born in Southport, on the Lancashire coast. He was the younger son of Thomas Barrett, a cabinet-maker, and his wife, Mary Ann Burke, née Lester, who were both from western Ireland.[2] He grew up in Liverpool, where he attended St Francis Xavier's College. His family moved to Manchester in 1873.[2][3]

 
Sheet music for "Lily of Laguna", 1898

Stuart began his career aged 15 as organist at Salford Cathedral. He held the post for seven years, and then moved to be organist at the Church of the Holy Name, Manchester, where he remained for another seven years.[4] To augment his salary he composed church music and taught.[4]

Stuart also promoted and conducted orchestral and vocal concerts. In the 1880s and 1890s he presented "Mr T. A. Barrett's Concerts" at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, and later at the larger St James's Hall.[5] These concerts featured popular orchestral music and selections from comic operas by such composers as Sullivan and Cellier, and excerpts from English grand operas by Balfe and Wallace.[6] Singers included Zélie de Lussan, Marie Roze, Ben Davies, David Ffrangcon-Davies, Durward Lely and Charles Manners. Instrumental soloists included Ignacy Jan Paderewski and Eugène Ysaÿe.[7]

Thomas Barrett had been property master at the Amphitheatre, Liverpool, and both his sons had quickly gained a taste for the theatre. Stuart's elder brother, Stephen (1855–1924), became a music-hall performer, appearing under the stage name Lester Barrett.[2] Gradually the music Stuart composed for local shows, and his popular ballads and music-hall songs began to supersede the composition of serious and religious music.[2] He composed music hall songs as "T. A. Barrett" and under the pseudonyms "Leslie Thomas", "Lester Barrett" and, most notably, "Leslie Stuart".[2] He wrote many popular songs for the blackface performer Eugene Stratton, including perhaps his best-remembered music hall song, "Lily of Laguna" (1898), and "Little Dolly Daydream."[4] He also wrote the patriotic ballad "Soldiers of the King" (1894, now sung as "Soldiers of the Queen").[4] In 1886, Stuart married Mary Catherine Fox, a schoolteacher (died 1941).[8]

 
Sheet music for Florodora, 1899

Stuart's earliest theatrical composing and writing was also for the Manchester theatre. Here he provided songs and incidental music for, in particular, the local pantomimes, which boasted famous names in their casts.[9] Stuart made a name in the 1890s by writing popular individual numbers that were interpolated into several West End and touring musicals by other composers. Later in his career, he would actively oppose this practice. The first of these songs was "Lousiana Lou". [sic] This had already been published and performed in music hall before being picked up by Ellaline Terriss and inserted, along with "The Little Mademoiselle", into the original production of The Shop Girl (1894), at the Gaiety Theatre.[10]

During the run of George Edwardes's An Artist's Model (1895), Stuart wrote several numbers that were interpolated (including "The Soldiers of the Queen", which was later famous as "Soldiers of the King"), and both wrote the lyric and composed "Trilby Will Be True" for Maurice Farkoa to perform at Daly's Theatre.[11] Subsequently he had songs used in Baron Golosh, The Circus Girl (1896), the London production of the American musical A Day in Paris (1897), Carl Kiefert's The Ballet Girl (1897) and The Yashmak (1897).[12]

Stuart composed some 65 songs including, in addition to those mentioned above, "The Bandolero", and "Little Dolly Daydream." His instrumental pieces included at least one Cakewalk.[13] As a songwriter, Stuart suffered so much from the effects of copyright infringement that it can be speculated that his move to the musical theatre was an attempt to avoid the loss of royalty income from the publication of sheet music and performances.[6]

Peak years

 
Music from Florodora (1899)
"Tell me pretty maiden"
Edison Records, c. 1908: "Edison Sextette": Ada Jones, George S. Lenox, Corinne Morgan, Grace Nelson, Bob Roberts and Frank C. Stanley
"In the shade of the palm"
Edison Records, 1902: Frank C. Stanley
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Stuart's greatest acclaim came in 1899 with Florodora, his first full musical comedy score, with a book by Owen Hall. With traditional slow love ballads as well as waltzes and more rhythmic and playful concerted numbers, the score and show became a worldwide hit. The double sextet from that show, "Tell me, pretty maiden", became a vaudeville standard.[14] The music critic Neville Cardus wrote about the "beautiful and unexpected phrasing and transitions" in the number, continuing, "it begins with a long phrase, rather like the opening bars of a Brahms symphony. It is extraordinary to find music such as this in a musical comedy". He ended by writing that in its own way it was "just as perfect a composition … as is the quintet in Meistersinger".[15]

Florodora was followed by The Silver Slipper (1901), The School Girl (1903), The Belle of Mayfair (1906), and Havana (1908). All these shows were successful and were produced internationally.[16]

Stuart was an active campaigner for intellectual property rights and called for tighter laws on both national and international copyright. Publishers and wealthy second-rate songwriters would pay producers, for the exposure, to insert their songs into a hit musical. With the strength of the fame of Florodora behind him, Stuart succeeded in stopping this practice in his next few pieces. Similarly, he had succeeded from time to time in parts of his fight in Britain and in America against unauthorized music distribution and on behalf of firmer national and international copyright laws.[17]

 
Music cover showing Olive May, Phyllis Dare and Gabrielle Ray in Peggy, 1911

The success of Stuart's shows led George Edwardes to hope that he would be able to replace the Caryll and Monckton writing partnership on their departure from the Gaiety Theatre. Stuart's next show, Captain Kidd (1909), however, was not for the Gaiety, and it was a flop. The Observer praised the performances of Terriss, Seymour Hicks and Ivy St Helier, but said that Stuart's music "had one striking and ingenious melody ... and two or three pretty tunes, and was adequate throughout without being remarkable."[18] His next production, The Slim Princess (1910), made only a modest impact, though it was produced in New York as well as in London.[19] Peggy was produced at the Gaiety in 1911 and had a reasonable but not outstanding run, from March to November in London,[20] as well as a Broadway run.[21] In the words of Stuart's biographer Andrew Lamb, these pieces "failed to add to his reputation".[2]

Later years

By 1911, the lack of any new stage successes, coupled with gambling debts and the interest due on them, resulted in Stuart's appearance before the bankruptcy courts.[17] He was declared bankrupt in 1913 and not discharged until 1920.[2] At the age of 48 he found that changing tastes in musical styles and the influence of modern dance rhythms meant his career as a composer was effectively over,[22] although he did write a number of songs that were inserted, against his principles, in the shows of other composers and a musical, Bubbles (1914), that was produced only in the provinces on a small scale.[17]

Stuart retained an income, provided by continued revivals and performances of the popular Florodora, and supplemented this by appearing with success in variety theatre, where he performed his most famous songs accompanying himself on the piano. However, after the bankruptcy, he began to drink and have marital problems. Stuart's last years were spent partly in trying to achieve production of his musical play Nina, also known as The Girl from Nyusa. The Shubert brothers took out an option to produce the work, but nothing materialised. In 1927, shortly before his death, Stuart wrote a series of fourteen short pieces for the Empire News, consisting of recollections and reminiscences.[23] They were collected and republished in 2003 under the title My Bohemian Life.[24] Stuart and his wife, Kitty, had five children who survived to adulthood, Mary "May" (1886–1956), Thomas "Leslie" (1888–1970), Marie "Dollie" (1891–1949), Stephen "Chap" (b. 1894) and Constance "Lola" (b. 1896).[25]

Stuart died at his daughter May's home in Richmond, Surrey, in 1928,[2] at the age of 65,[26] and was buried in Richmond Cemetery.[27]

Reputation and legacy

The mid-20th century critic James Agate said that he had proved the quality of Stuart's music: he took a Stuart song, halved the tempo, supplied German words – and serious musicians accepted without demur his assertion that it was a recently discovered cradle song by Brahms.[28] In 2003 the critic Rodney Milnes called Stuart "the most gifted composer of musical comedy in Britain between Sullivan and Vivian Ellis".[15]

A 1941 biographical film entitled You Will Remember about Stuart starred Robert Morley as Stuart. It features several of Stuart's songs.[29] Stuart's songs have been used in over a dozen other films. A bronzed plaster plaque of Stuart, made by John Cassidy, was placed in the Manchester Central Library in April 1939, inscribed "A son of Manchester who moved the nation to song".[30]

Notes

  1. ^ Lamb, p. 3
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Lamb, Andrew. "Barrett, Thomas Augustine (1863–1928)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, online edition, May 2007, accessed 26 May 2012 (subscription required)
  3. ^ "Leslie Stuart memorial (1939)". Johncassidy.org.uk. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d Lamb, Andrew. "Stuart, Leslie", Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online, accessed 26 May 2012 (subscription required)
  5. ^ Lamb, pp. 26 and 33
  6. ^ a b Murray, Roderick. Review of "Leslie Stuart: Composer of Florodora", by Andrew Lamb, in The Gaiety journal, issue 1: Spring 2003
  7. ^ "Mr. T. A. Barrett's Benefit Concert", The Manchester Guardian, 6 April 1891, p. 8 (Lely and Manners); "Mr. T. A. Barrett's Benefit Concert", The Manchester Guardian, 20 March 1893, p. 5 (Davies and Ffrangcon-Davies); "Mr. T. A. Barrett's Concerts", The Manchester Guardian, 12 October 1891, p. 6 (Ysaÿe); "Mr. T. A. Barrett's Concerts", The Manchester Guardian, 17 October 1892, p. 5 (de Lussan); "Mr. T. A. Barrett's Concert", The Manchester Guardian, 26 October 1891, p. 5 (Paderewski); and Lamb, pp. 32–33 (Roze)
  8. ^ Lamb, p. 27
  9. ^ Lamb, p. 62
  10. ^ Lamb, pp. 54–55
  11. ^ Lamb, p. 58
  12. ^ Lamb, pp. 58 (Baron Galosh), 63 (The Circus Girl), 275 (The Ballet Girl) and 276 (A Day in Paris and The Yashmak)
  13. ^ "An Eighth Garland of British Light Music", MusicWeb International, accessed 26 May 2012
  14. ^ Traubner, p. 212
  15. ^ a b Milnes, Rodney. "Rodney Milnes reviews a new biography of Leslie Stuart", Opera, July 2003, p. 817
  16. ^ Lamb, pp. 58 (The Silver Slipper), 145–146 (The School Girl), 186 (The Belle of Mayfair) and 192 (Havana)
  17. ^ a b c "Mr. Leslie Stuart's Affairs: Losses Owing to 'Pirated' Music", The Manchester Guardian, 21 August 1912, p. 9
  18. ^ "At the Play", The Observer, 16 January 1910, p. 5
  19. ^ "Elsie Janis a Slim Princess", The New York Times, 3 January 1911
  20. ^ "Theatres", The Times, 7 March 1911, p. 8 and "Theatres", The Times, 15 November 1911, p. 8
  21. ^ "Peggy, at Casino, is queer mixture", The New York Times, 8 December 1911
  22. ^ Cardus, Neville, "Leslie Stuart – Famous Song-Writer's Death", The Manchester Guardian, 28 May 1928, p. 6
  23. ^ Lamb, p. 258
  24. ^ Stuart, passim
  25. ^ Lamb, pp. 28, 30, 42, 54, 164, 258 and 264
  26. ^ Stuart was evasive about his true age. Various different years of birth have been given including 1866, and no official birth record is known to exist. However, his 1871 and 1881 census entries seem to establish that he was born in 1863. See Lamb, p. vii
  27. ^ Meller, Hugh; Parsons, Brian (2011). London Cemeteries: An Illustrated Guide and Gazetteer (fifth ed.). Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press. pp. 290–294. ISBN 9780752461830.
  28. ^ Lamb, p. 66
  29. ^ You Will Remember (1941) at AllMovie
  30. ^ "Leslie Stuart: Memorial Plaque for Manchester", The Manchester Guardian, 13 April 1939, p. 11

References

Further reading

  • Hyman, Alan (1978). Sullivan and His Satellites. London: Chappell. ISBN 0903443244.
  • Murray, Roderick: "Establishing a Performing Text for Leslie Stuart's Havana" in The Gaiety Annual (2003) pp. 35–45
  • Staveacre, Terry: The Songwriters. BBC Books, 1980

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Leslie Stuart 15 March 1863 27 March 1928 born Thomas Augustine Barrett 1 was an English composer of Edwardian musical comedy best known for the hit show Florodora 1899 and many popular songs Leslie Stuart He began in Manchester as a church organist for 14 years and taught music while beginning to compose church music and secular songs in the late 1870s In the 1880s he began to promote and conduct orchestral and vocal concerts of popular and theatre music as Mr T A Barrett s Concerts He began to focus his composition on music hall including songs for blackface performers such as Lily of Laguna songs for musical theatre such as pantomimes and London shows touring through Manchester and ballads such as Soldiers of the King Stuart later campaigned against the interpolation of new songs into musical theatre scores and for better enforcement of musical copyrights In 1895 Stuart began to write songs for George Edwardes s London shows at the Gaiety Theatre and Daly s Theatre His first full musical comedy score was Florodora in 1899 The show became an international hit and its song Tell me pretty maiden became a vaudeville standard Other musical comedy successes followed including The School Girl 1903 The Belle of Mayfair 1906 and Havana 1908 Of his later shows only Peggy made much of an impact By 1911 Stuart s gambling debts sent him into bankruptcy Unable to adapt to changing musical tastes he was no longer in demand as a composer although he had some success as a piano sketch artist in variety theatre Contents 1 Life and career 1 1 Early years 1 2 Peak years 1 3 Later years 2 Reputation and legacy 3 Notes 3 1 References 4 Further reading 5 External linksLife and career EditEarly years Edit Stuart was born in Southport on the Lancashire coast He was the younger son of Thomas Barrett a cabinet maker and his wife Mary Ann Burke nee Lester who were both from western Ireland 2 He grew up in Liverpool where he attended St Francis Xavier s College His family moved to Manchester in 1873 2 3 Sheet music for Lily of Laguna 1898 Stuart began his career aged 15 as organist at Salford Cathedral He held the post for seven years and then moved to be organist at the Church of the Holy Name Manchester where he remained for another seven years 4 To augment his salary he composed church music and taught 4 Stuart also promoted and conducted orchestral and vocal concerts In the 1880s and 1890s he presented Mr T A Barrett s Concerts at the Free Trade Hall Manchester and later at the larger St James s Hall 5 These concerts featured popular orchestral music and selections from comic operas by such composers as Sullivan and Cellier and excerpts from English grand operas by Balfe and Wallace 6 Singers included Zelie de Lussan Marie Roze Ben Davies David Ffrangcon Davies Durward Lely and Charles Manners Instrumental soloists included Ignacy Jan Paderewski and Eugene Ysaye 7 Thomas Barrett had been property master at the Amphitheatre Liverpool and both his sons had quickly gained a taste for the theatre Stuart s elder brother Stephen 1855 1924 became a music hall performer appearing under the stage name Lester Barrett 2 Gradually the music Stuart composed for local shows and his popular ballads and music hall songs began to supersede the composition of serious and religious music 2 He composed music hall songs as T A Barrett and under the pseudonyms Leslie Thomas Lester Barrett and most notably Leslie Stuart 2 He wrote many popular songs for the blackface performer Eugene Stratton including perhaps his best remembered music hall song Lily of Laguna 1898 and Little Dolly Daydream 4 He also wrote the patriotic ballad Soldiers of the King 1894 now sung as Soldiers of the Queen 4 In 1886 Stuart married Mary Catherine Fox a schoolteacher died 1941 8 Sheet music for Florodora 1899 Stuart s earliest theatrical composing and writing was also for the Manchester theatre Here he provided songs and incidental music for in particular the local pantomimes which boasted famous names in their casts 9 Stuart made a name in the 1890s by writing popular individual numbers that were interpolated into several West End and touring musicals by other composers Later in his career he would actively oppose this practice The first of these songs was Lousiana Lou sic This had already been published and performed in music hall before being picked up by Ellaline Terriss and inserted along with The Little Mademoiselle into the original production of The Shop Girl 1894 at the Gaiety Theatre 10 During the run of George Edwardes s An Artist s Model 1895 Stuart wrote several numbers that were interpolated including The Soldiers of the Queen which was later famous as Soldiers of the King and both wrote the lyric and composed Trilby Will Be True for Maurice Farkoa to perform at Daly s Theatre 11 Subsequently he had songs used in Baron Golosh The Circus Girl 1896 the London production of the American musical A Day in Paris 1897 Carl Kiefert s The Ballet Girl 1897 and The Yashmak 1897 12 Stuart composed some 65 songs including in addition to those mentioned above The Bandolero and Little Dolly Daydream His instrumental pieces included at least one Cakewalk 13 As a songwriter Stuart suffered so much from the effects of copyright infringement that it can be speculated that his move to the musical theatre was an attempt to avoid the loss of royalty income from the publication of sheet music and performances 6 Peak years Edit Music from Florodora 1899 Tell me pretty maiden source source Edison Records c 1908 Edison Sextette Ada Jones George S Lenox Corinne Morgan Grace Nelson Bob Roberts and Frank C Stanley In the shade of the palm source source Edison Records 1902 Frank C Stanley Problems playing these files See media help Stuart s greatest acclaim came in 1899 with Florodora his first full musical comedy score with a book by Owen Hall With traditional slow love ballads as well as waltzes and more rhythmic and playful concerted numbers the score and show became a worldwide hit The double sextet from that show Tell me pretty maiden became a vaudeville standard 14 The music critic Neville Cardus wrote about the beautiful and unexpected phrasing and transitions in the number continuing it begins with a long phrase rather like the opening bars of a Brahms symphony It is extraordinary to find music such as this in a musical comedy He ended by writing that in its own way it was just as perfect a composition as is the quintet in Meistersinger 15 Florodora was followed by The Silver Slipper 1901 The School Girl 1903 The Belle of Mayfair 1906 and Havana 1908 All these shows were successful and were produced internationally 16 Stuart was an active campaigner for intellectual property rights and called for tighter laws on both national and international copyright Publishers and wealthy second rate songwriters would pay producers for the exposure to insert their songs into a hit musical With the strength of the fame of Florodora behind him Stuart succeeded in stopping this practice in his next few pieces Similarly he had succeeded from time to time in parts of his fight in Britain and in America against unauthorized music distribution and on behalf of firmer national and international copyright laws 17 Music cover showing Olive May Phyllis Dare and Gabrielle Ray in Peggy 1911 The success of Stuart s shows led George Edwardes to hope that he would be able to replace the Caryll and Monckton writing partnership on their departure from the Gaiety Theatre Stuart s next show Captain Kidd 1909 however was not for the Gaiety and it was a flop The Observer praised the performances of Terriss Seymour Hicks and Ivy St Helier but said that Stuart s music had one striking and ingenious melody and two or three pretty tunes and was adequate throughout without being remarkable 18 His next production The Slim Princess 1910 made only a modest impact though it was produced in New York as well as in London 19 Peggy was produced at the Gaiety in 1911 and had a reasonable but not outstanding run from March to November in London 20 as well as a Broadway run 21 In the words of Stuart s biographer Andrew Lamb these pieces failed to add to his reputation 2 Later years Edit By 1911 the lack of any new stage successes coupled with gambling debts and the interest due on them resulted in Stuart s appearance before the bankruptcy courts 17 He was declared bankrupt in 1913 and not discharged until 1920 2 At the age of 48 he found that changing tastes in musical styles and the influence of modern dance rhythms meant his career as a composer was effectively over 22 although he did write a number of songs that were inserted against his principles in the shows of other composers and a musical Bubbles 1914 that was produced only in the provinces on a small scale 17 Stuart retained an income provided by continued revivals and performances of the popular Florodora and supplemented this by appearing with success in variety theatre where he performed his most famous songs accompanying himself on the piano However after the bankruptcy he began to drink and have marital problems Stuart s last years were spent partly in trying to achieve production of his musical play Nina also known as The Girl from Nyusa The Shubert brothers took out an option to produce the work but nothing materialised In 1927 shortly before his death Stuart wrote a series of fourteen short pieces for the Empire News consisting of recollections and reminiscences 23 They were collected and republished in 2003 under the title My Bohemian Life 24 Stuart and his wife Kitty had five children who survived to adulthood Mary May 1886 1956 Thomas Leslie 1888 1970 Marie Dollie 1891 1949 Stephen Chap b 1894 and Constance Lola b 1896 25 Stuart died at his daughter May s home in Richmond Surrey in 1928 2 at the age of 65 26 and was buried in Richmond Cemetery 27 Reputation and legacy EditThe mid 20th century critic James Agate said that he had proved the quality of Stuart s music he took a Stuart song halved the tempo supplied German words and serious musicians accepted without demur his assertion that it was a recently discovered cradle song by Brahms 28 In 2003 the critic Rodney Milnes called Stuart the most gifted composer of musical comedy in Britain between Sullivan and Vivian Ellis 15 A 1941 biographical film entitled You Will Remember about Stuart starred Robert Morley as Stuart It features several of Stuart s songs 29 Stuart s songs have been used in over a dozen other films A bronzed plaster plaque of Stuart made by John Cassidy was placed in the Manchester Central Library in April 1939 inscribed A son of Manchester who moved the nation to song 30 Notes Edit Lamb p 3 a b c d e f g h Lamb Andrew Barrett Thomas Augustine 1863 1928 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 online edition May 2007 accessed 26 May 2012 subscription required Leslie Stuart memorial 1939 Johncassidy org uk Retrieved 8 January 2021 a b c d Lamb Andrew Stuart Leslie Grove Music Online Oxford Music Online accessed 26 May 2012 subscription required Lamb pp 26 and 33 a b Murray Roderick Review of Leslie Stuart Composer of Florodora by Andrew Lamb in The Gaiety journal issue 1 Spring 2003 Mr T A Barrett s Benefit Concert The Manchester Guardian 6 April 1891 p 8 Lely and Manners Mr T A Barrett s Benefit Concert The Manchester Guardian 20 March 1893 p 5 Davies and Ffrangcon Davies Mr T A Barrett s Concerts The Manchester Guardian 12 October 1891 p 6 Ysaye Mr T A Barrett s Concerts The Manchester Guardian 17 October 1892 p 5 de Lussan Mr T A Barrett s Concert The Manchester Guardian 26 October 1891 p 5 Paderewski and Lamb pp 32 33 Roze Lamb p 27 Lamb p 62 Lamb pp 54 55 Lamb p 58 Lamb pp 58 Baron Galosh 63 The Circus Girl 275 The Ballet Girl and 276 A Day in Paris and The Yashmak An Eighth Garland of British Light Music MusicWeb International accessed 26 May 2012 Traubner p 212 a b Milnes Rodney Rodney Milnes reviews a new biography of Leslie Stuart Opera July 2003 p 817 Lamb pp 58 The Silver Slipper 145 146 The School Girl 186 The Belle of Mayfair and 192 Havana a b c Mr Leslie Stuart s Affairs Losses Owing to Pirated Music The Manchester Guardian 21 August 1912 p 9 At the Play The Observer 16 January 1910 p 5 Elsie Janis a Slim Princess The New York Times 3 January 1911 Theatres The Times 7 March 1911 p 8 and Theatres The Times 15 November 1911 p 8 Peggy at Casino is queer mixture The New York Times 8 December 1911 Cardus Neville Leslie Stuart Famous Song Writer s Death The Manchester Guardian 28 May 1928 p 6 Lamb p 258 Stuart passim Lamb pp 28 30 42 54 164 258 and 264 Stuart was evasive about his true age Various different years of birth have been given including 1866 and no official birth record is known to exist However his 1871 and 1881 census entries seem to establish that he was born in 1863 See Lamb p vii Meller Hugh Parsons Brian 2011 London Cemeteries An Illustrated Guide and Gazetteer fifth ed Stroud Gloucestershire The History Press pp 290 294 ISBN 9780752461830 Lamb p 66 You Will Remember 1941 at AllMovie Leslie Stuart Memorial Plaque for Manchester The Manchester Guardian 13 April 1939 p 11 References Edit Lamb Andrew 2002 Leslie Stuart Composer of Florodora London Routledge ISBN 0415937477 Traubner Richard 2003 Operetta A Theatrical History New York Routledge ISBN 0415966418 Stuart Leslie 2003 Andrew Lamb ed My Bohemian Life Croydon Fullers Wood Press ISBN 0952414937 Further reading EditHyman Alan 1978 Sullivan and His Satellites London Chappell ISBN 0903443244 Murray Roderick Establishing a Performing Text for Leslie Stuart s Havana in The Gaiety Annual 2003 pp 35 45 Staveacre Terry The Songwriters BBC Books 1980External links Edit Wikiquote has quotations related to Leslie Stuart Wikisource has original works by or about Leslie Stuart Media related to Leslie Stuart at Wikimedia Commons Profile of Stuart Leslie Stuart at the Internet Broadway Database Leslie Stuart at IMDb Leslie Stuart at Find a Grave Leslie Stuart recordings at the Discography of American Historical Recordings Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Leslie Stuart amp oldid 1054423392, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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