Frank Curzon

Having begun with The Scarlet Pimpernel as both play and novel, EBO wrote a number of further plays, including the eighteenth-century highwayman story Beau Brocade (produced at the Queen's Theatre under Frank Curzon ,

EBO said that Friday the thirteenth was always a lucky date for her. A trial staging in Nottingham was, said the author later, phenomenally successful (members of audience stayed in the theatre clapping and cheering...