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THE STRAND MAGAZINE.
157

Portraits of Celebrities at Different Times of their Lives.

SYDNEY GRUNDY.

Born 1848.

Age 15.
From a Photo. by W. Woodbury, Manchester.
Age 30.
From a Photo. by Denculain & Blake, Strand.
Age 22.
From a Photo. by Calvert Bros., Manchester.
Present Day.
From a Photo. by Lombardi & Co., Pall Mall East.


M R. SYDNEY GRUNDY was born in Manchester, and devoted himself to playwriting at the early age of twelve. He practised for six years as a barrister in his native city; but his one-act piece, "A Little Change," having been produced by Buckstone, with Madge Robertson and Mr. Kendal in the leading parts, he came to London in 1876, and has produced a play almost yearly ever since. His first remarkable success was "Mammon," produced at the Strand Theatre in 1877. In 1882 he wrote the comic opera, "The Vicar of Bray," recently revived, with considerable alteration, at the Savoy. "Clito," produced by Mr. Wilson Barrett in 1886, was the beginning of a series of almost uniform successes, of which, perhaps, the most popular have been "The Arabian Nights," "A Pair of Spectacles," and "Haddon Hall."

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