Austen Hurgon

Austen Hurgon (1867 – 24 June 1942) was an actor, singer, theatre director and librettist for several successful Edwardian musical comedies of the 1900s and 1910s.

However, The Three Kisses (1907) at the Apollo Theatre and My Mimosa Maid failed, and his association with Curzon ended, his management having lasted for just four performances of the latter piece.

[3] For C. H. Workman he took over the management of and directed the failing musical Two Merry Monarchs (1910) at the Strand Theatre, the last piece that can be considered a Savoy opera.

With Herbert C. Sargent he wrote Girl Wanted (1916) for the London Opera House,[6] while with George Arthurs he wrote the book for the musical Suzette;[7] the English version of the operetta Arlette (1917) at the Shaftesbury Theatre, with songs by Ivor Novello,[8] and The Girl for the Boy (1919), an adaptation of Paul Gavault's La Petite Chocolatière.

He produced and directed Ivor Novello's comic opera The Golden Moth (1921) at the Adelphi Theatre[9] and his own His Girl (1922) at the Gaiety, but both had only moderate success, and he retired.