Parker, Louis Napoleon

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Parker, Louis Napoleon (1852–1944), English dramatist and pageant-master, who was for a time a music master at Sherborne School in Dorset. The success of his early plays enabled him to resign in 1892 and go to London, where he devoted the rest of his long life to the theatre. Among his numerous works the most successful were Rosemary (1896), written in collaboration with Murray Carson, who worked with him on a number of other plays including Pomander Walk and Disraeli (both 1911), the latter providing a fine part for George Arliss, in which he had a long run in New York. It was seen in London in 1916. Parker was much in demand as a producer of the civic pageants so popular in Edwardian England. During the First World War he was responsible for several patriotic pageants in London, and in 1918 he devised The Pageant of Drury Lane.

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