The Silver King was well received and accelerated the careers of its playwrights, Henry Arthur Jones
and Henry Herman
. The two later co-wrote Breaking a Butterfly, one of the first English adaptations of...
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Mary Angela Dickens
This three-act play was written by W. G. Wills
and Henry Herman
, the latter of whom co-wrote The Silver King, another play in which MAD
had performed.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Wills and Herman
Adrian, Arthur A. Georgina Hogarth and the Dickens Circle. Oxford University Press, 1957.