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Albert O'Donnell Bartholeyns (ca. 1851 – 20 May 1922),〔"Deaths", ''The Times'', 25 May 1922, p. 1〕 sometimes known as A. O'Donnell Bartholeyns, was an English journalist, hospital administrator, and translator of plays. ==Biography== Bartholeyns's contributions to London newspapers were mostly, as was the practice of the day, unsigned. He contributed to, among others, ''The Morning Post'' and ''The Pall Mall Gazette'', and was described in ''The Era'' as well known in his profession.〔''The Era'', 11 June 1898, p. 17〕 As Secretary-Superintendent of the Middlesex Hospital, he featured regularly in the columns of ''The Times'' and other papers during the 1880s, appealing for funds.〔See, e.g., ''The Times'', 18 January 1888, p. 13.〕 He published a book, ''The Great Hospitals of London'' in 1888.〔"New Books", ''The Times'', 3 December 1888, p. 12〕 Bartholeyns also published books on religious themes, including ''The Legend of the Christmas Rose'', a retelling of the Gospel story of the Magi.〔 The text was first presented onstage with ''tableaux vivants'', at St. George's Hall, London in the summer of 1898, and published in book form in December of the same year.〔''The Morning Post'', 5 December 1898, p. 6〕 He followed this with ''The Wonder Workers, A Dream of Holy Flowers''.〔"New Books", ''The Times'', 5 December 1899, p. 12〕 As a translator, he adapted Tasso's ''Aminta'' as a pastoral play for English performance (music by Henry Gadsby),〔"Secular Choral Music", ''The Times'', 29 December 1903, p. 9〕 and Goldoni's ''La Locandiera'' as ''Our Hostess'', presented at the Theatre Royal Kilburn in 1897.〔''The Era'', 1 May 1897, p. 8〕 His original stage work included a one-act musical piece, ''A la Française'', written with the composer Meyer Lutz in 1893,〔"Slashes and Puffs", ''Fun'', 19 July 1893, p. 22〕 and a biographical play ''Swift and Vanessa'' about Dean Swift in 1904.〔"Dramatic Notes", ''Academy and Literature'', 16 January 1904, p. 77〕 For the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, he adapted Theodor Körner's libretto ''Der vierjährige Posten'' as ''The Outpost'', with music by Hamilton Clarke, premiered at the Savoy Theatre in July 1900.〔Walters, Michael and George Low. ("The Outpost" ). ''Curtain Raisers'', The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive, 25 April 2008, accessed 8 May 2010〕 He died in London, aged 71. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Albert O'Donnell Bartholeyns」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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