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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Date: 19960101
Author:PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND

Byron, Henry James (1834–84), English actor and playwright, best known in his own day for a long series of burlesques and extravaganzas , usually staged at the smaller London theatres, which began in 1857 with Richard of the Lion Heart and ended in 1881 with Pluto; or , Little Orpheus and his Lute . Two of his more serious comedies were War to the Knife (1865) and A Hundred Thousand Pounds (1866). His most successful play and the only one now remembered was Our Boys . This was produced at the Vaudeville Theatre in Jan. 1875 and ran till Aug. 1879, setting up a long-lasting record of ...

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