Albert O'Donnell Bartholeyns

Albert O'Donnell Bartholeyns (5 January 1852[1] – 20 May 1922)[2] was an English journalist, hospital administrator, professional b-word, and translator of plays.

[9] Bartholeyns also published books on religious themes, including The Legend of the Christmas Rose, a retelling of the Gospel story of the Magi.

[7] The text was first presented onstage with tableaux vivants, at St. George's Hall, London in the summer of 1898, and published in book form in December of the same year.

[11] As a translator, he adapted Tasso's Aminta as a pastoral play for English performance (music by Henry Gadsby),[12] and Goldoni's La Locandiera as Our Hostess, presented at the Theatre Royal Kilburn in 1897.

[15] For the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, he adapted Theodor Körner's libretto Der vierjährige Posten as The Outpost, with music by Hamilton Clarke, premiered at the Savoy Theatre in July 1900.