Frank Harvey (playwright)
{{Short description|British actor and playwright}}
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Franks Harvey was the nom de plume of John Ainsworth Hilton, born Jean François de Soissons de Latanac{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article83689857 |title=Music and Drama |newspaper=Queensland Figaro |volume=XXXVIII |issue=10 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=21 March 1931 |accessdate=13 June 2021 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}} (c. April 1842 – 29 March 1903), actor and playwright, who was born and died in Manchester, England.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article120662053 |title=General Gossip |newspaper=The Referee (Sydney) |issue=863 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=20 May 1903 |accessdate=13 June 2021 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}} His plays were popular in Australia.
He was the father of Australian screenwriter Frank Harvey (1885–1965) and grandfather of the English screenwriter Frank Harvey (1912–1981)
Selected plays
- The Wages of Sin performed by the W. J. Holloway company at the Academy of Music, Ballarat in January 1884{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article201622041 |title="The Wages of Sin" |newspaper=The Ballarat Star |volume=XXIX |issue=22 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=26 January 1884 |accessdate=13 June 2021 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}
- Woman against Woman, adapted from the French and first staged in March 1883 at the Theatre Royal, Portsmouth{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article43661272 |title=Amusements |newspaper=South Australian Register |volume=XLIX |issue=11,718 |location=South Australia |date=4 June 1884 |accessdate=13 June 2021 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}
- A Wife's Victory at the Princess's Theatre, Melbourne in August 1884.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article222468816 |title=The Stage |newspaper=Weekly Times |issue=778 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=2 August 1884 |accessdate=13 June 2021 |page=11 |via=National Library of Australia}}
- A Mad Marriage performed by the W. J. Holloway company at the Academy of Music, Ballarat in January 1886.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206306058 |title=Academy of Music |newspaper=The Ballarat Star |volume=XXXI |issue=9 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=12 January 1886 |accessdate=13 June 2021 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}
- The Lord of The Rings performed by the W. J. Holloway company at the Academy of Music, Launceston in 1886.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article199532212 |title=Amusements |newspaper=The Tasmanian |volume=XV |issue=7 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=13 February 1886 |accessdate=13 June 2021 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}
- The World Against Her performed by Alfred Dampier's company at the Victoria Theatre, Newcastle in May 1888. ".. one of the most sympathetic plays ever written"{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article135916655 |title=Victoria Theatre |newspaper=Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate |volume=XV |issue=10,776 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=9 May 1888 |accessdate=13 June 2021 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}
- Judge Not performed by Alfred Dampier's company at the Alexandra Theatre, Melbourne "... the very essence of dulness and puerility ... difficult to comprehend why a gentleman of Mr. Dampier's experience and ability prefers plays of this class ...{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article198091535 |title=Amusements |newspaper=The Leader (Melbourne) |issue=1774 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=11 January 1890 |accessdate=13 June 2021 |page=27 |via=National Library of Australia}} Dampier subsequently, and successfully, replaced it with his dramatization of Monte Cristo.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article147283780 |title=The Dramatic Year |newspaper=Table Talk |issue=289 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=2 January 1891 |accessdate=13 June 2021 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}
- The Land of the Living performed by Grattan Riggs with the Holloway-Howe company at the Theatre Royal, Hobart in February 1890.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article200306673 |title=Amusements. |newspaper=The Tasmanian |volume=XVII |issue=5 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=1 February 1890 |accessdate=13 June 2021 |page=17 |via=National Library of Australia}}
- Fallen Among Thieves performed by the W. J. Holloway company at the Princess Theatre, Bendigo.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88995498 |title=The Holloway Dramatic Season |newspaper=Bendigo Advertiser |volume=XLV |issue=12,996 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=14 January 1897 |accessdate=13 June 2021 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}
- Shall We Forgive Her performed by the W. J. Holloway company at the Maryborough Town Hall.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article147692420 |title=The Holloway Dramatic Company |newspaper=Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser |issue=7,616 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=3 April 1897 |accessdate=13 June 2021 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}
- A House of Mystery at the Criterion Theatre, Sydney in December 1899.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article121814291 |title=Criterion — "A House of Mystery" |newspaper=The Referee (Sydney) |issue=683 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=6 December 1899 |accessdate=13 June 2021 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}
- The Milestones of Life "... one of the best things Frank Harvey has given the world"{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article169155542 |title=Mummer's Mems |newspaper=Quiz |volume=XII |issue=618 |location=South Australia |date=3 July 1901 |accessdate=13 June 2021 |page=15 |via=National Library of Australia}}
- The World's Mercy Coulter Dramatic Company in Broken Hill, December 1904
- A Musician's Romance at the Theatre Royal, Perth, July 1905
- The Workman's Wife performed by the Dora Mostyn Dramatic Company at Mount Alexander, Victoria in July 1903.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article199642188 |title="The Workman's Wife." |newspaper=Mount Alexander Mail |issue=13770 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=25 July 1903 |accessdate=13 June 2021 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}
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