OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2195, 7 July 1914, Page 8

OBITUARY

' SYDNEY GRUNDY. Br TekiraDh—Pra=e Aesociatien—Coprricht , (Roc. July 6, 10.25 p,.mO London! July G. Tlio death is announced nf Sydney Grundy, drniriatio author, aged GG. Tho lafe' Mr. Sydney Grundy was born lit Manchester, on March.23, 1848. After kayinf Owen's .College, tho studied law, nnd was in active practice as n barrister in Manchester for seven years, 18G9-76; Ilia first attempt at dramatic authorship was, a 4 comedietta, "A Little Change, written in 1872, produced li'y Buckstone at tho Itaymarket, in which tlio Kendals played the principal parts; his first important playiwas "Mammon," produced in 1877, byjtho lato W. 11. Vornon; this was followed by "Tho Snowball," "In Honour Bound," "Tho Vicar of Bray," "A Fool's Paradise," "The Ilead of Romulus," "Man Proposes," "Sympathetic " Sonls," "Tho Glass si Fashion," "The Queen's Favourite," "Tho Silver Shield," "Clito," "Tho Wife's Sacrifice," "The ' Bells of Hasl.emere," "The Arabian Nights," "Tho', Pompadour," "The Union Jack." "Mamma," "Tho Deau's Daughter,". "A Whito Lie," "Esther Samlraz." "A Pair of Spec-' tacles," "A Village Priest," "Had,lon Hall." "Sowing tho Wind," "An Old •Tew," "A Bunch of Violets," "Tho New Woman," "Slaves of the lfinp," "Tlio Mr. Castello," "The Greatest of Tlies?,"

"A Marriage of Convenience," "Tlio Silver Ivcy," "The Musketeers," "Tho Degenerates," "The. B'aek Tulip." "A Debt of Ilonour," "I'roclts and Frills," "Business'.is'Business" and,"A Fearful Joy." In a letter to tlio Fress 111 May last the late. Mr... Grundy wrote:..".The language systematically"used upon, the contemporary stage . is a'scandal. Indignation i* ■burning,,,hut is gagged.. .You might as woUgm? a volcano: sooner or Inter even Ylramatic critics will lie. shamed .into doll's their duty." ...