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George Robert Sims (2 September 1847 – 4 September 1922) was an English journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist and bon vivant. Sims began writing lively humour and satiric pieces for Fun magazine and The Referee , but he was soon concentrating on social reform, particularly the plight of the poor in London's slums.
A postcard, from about 1905, which carries and illustrates the first two verses. [1]"In the Workhouse: Christmas Day", better known as "Christmas Day in the Workhouse", is a dramatic monologue written as a ballad by campaigning journalist George Robert Sims and first published in The Referee for the Christmas of 1877. [2]
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Faust up to Date is a musical burlesque with a libretto was written by G. R. Sims and Henry Pettitt, and a score written by Meyer Lutz (a few songs by others were interpolated into the show). Set in Nuremberg , it is a spoof of Gounod 's opera, Faust , which had first been performed in London in 1864.
The Lights o' London is a melodramatic play, by George R. Sims, first produced in London on 10 September 1881 at the Princess's Theatre, produced by and starring Wilson Barrett. The play was a hit, running for 226 nights, and was frequently revived thereafter. [ 1 ]
George R. Sims (New Port Richey) (1876–1954), founder of New Port Richey; George Sims (educator), British educator; A. E. Sims (1896–1981), British composer, conductor and Royal Air Force officer, sometimes known as George; George Carol Sims (1902–1966), American pulp fiction author and screenwriter who wrote as Paul Cain
List of Brontë poems; List of poems by Ivan Bunin; List of poems by Catullus; List of Emily Dickinson poems; List of poems by Robert Frost; List of poems by John Keats; List of poems by Philip Larkin; List of poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; List of poems by Walt Whitman; List of poems by William Wordsworth; List of works by Andrew Marvell
The Lights o' London, an 1881 melodramatic play by George R. Sims Lights of London (1914 film) , a British silent film Lights of London (1923 film) , a British silent film