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Owen Hall
Owen Hall (10 April 1853 – 9 April 1907) was the principal pen name of the Irish-born theatre writer, racing correspondent, theatre critic and solicitor, James "Jimmy" Davis, when writing for the stage. After his successive careers in law and journalism, Hall wrote the librettos for a series of extraordinarily successful musical comedies in the 1890s and the first decade of the 1900s, including ''A Gaiety Girl, An Artist's Model, The Geisha, A Greek Slave'' and ''Florodora''. Despite his achievements, Hall was constantly in financial distress because of his gambling and extravagant lifestyle; his pseudonym was a pun on "owing all".
==Life and career==
Born in a Jewish household, Hall was the eldest son of an English dentist who practised in Dublin and later became a portrait photographer in London, Hyman Davis (1824–1875), and his wife Isabella (1824–1900), whose maiden name was also Davis.〔Endelman, Todd M. "The Frankaus of London: A Study in Radical Assimilation, 1837–1967", ''Jewish History'', Vol. 8, Nos. 1–2 (1994), pp. 127–128〕〔Frankau, p. 37〕 The Davis family returned to London in the 1850s,〔 and James graduated from University College, London, as a Bachelor of Laws in 1869.〔Jacobs, Joseph. (Davis, James (Owen Hall) ), JewishEncyclopedia.com, accessed 12 January 2013〕 Among his eight siblings were Julia, a successful novelist under the name "Frank Danby", who married businessman Arthur Frankau and was the mother of author Gilbert Frankau and comedian Ronald Frankau and grandmother of novelist Pamela Frankau and actress Rosemary Frankau; Eliza, who was the journalist "Mrs. Aria" and long-time lover of actor Henry Irving;〔Aria, pp. 27–53, pp. 84–157; Richards, Jeffrey. ''Sir Henry Irving: A Victorian Actor and his World'', Hambledon & London (2005), pp. 41 and 158〕 Harrie (1864–1920), who became a journalist in the US;〔"Harrie Davis, Writer, Dead", ''New-York Tribune'', 15 January 1920, p. 6〕 and Florence ("Florette") who authored a novel〔Collins, Florence. ''The Luddingtons: A Novel'', Heinemann (1906)〕 and married Marcus E. Collins, brother of Arthur Collins, the manager of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.〔Collins, Horace. ''My Best Riches'', Eyre & Spottiswoode (1941), pp. 11, 19, 34〕〔Aria, p. 7〕
In the 1870s, Hall (still known as James Davis) married Esther (''nèe'' Andrade, 1854–1946) and had three children, Isabelle Davis (born c. 1878), Hyman Davis (born c. 1879) and Dorothy Davis (born c. 1880–1963).〔〔(1881 England Census, Marylebone, Portland Place, p. 79 ), Ancestry.com, accessed 2 March 2014〕 His daughter Dorothy married a Belgian diplomat, Baron Léon le Maire de Warzée d'Hermalle, and wrote of her travels in Persia, "Peeps into Persia" (1913), under the name of Dorothy de Warzée.〔("''Peeps into Persia'' (1913)" ), Archive.org, accessed 27 February 2014〕
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