Herbert Sparling (1864â€"1944) was a British comedy and musical
theatre actor and director.In 1889 Sparling was sued for breach of
contract at Brompton County Court by the "dramatic author" Henry
Plunkett Gratton (1808â€"1889), who alleged that in 1887 he and
Sparling had made an agreement that Gratton would rewrite a drama for
Sparling in return for which he would receive periodic payments from
Sparling. When asked for the second payment Sparling made various
excuses and quit his lodgings on The Strand. The outcome was that
Gratton was awarded £10 for the work he had already done.Sparling
appeared as Dudley Harcourt in My Sweetheart (1891) at the Vaudeville
Theatre; Luigi Di Volpa in F. C. Burnand's Private Enquiry (1891) at
the Strand Theatre; Lyngstrand in Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea (1891)
at Terry's Theatre; Josiah Higgins in Morocco Bound (1893); Sir
Wormwood Scrubs in Howard Talbot's comic opera Wapping Old Stairs
(1894); as Lord Lavender in The Lady Slavey (1894); Detective in A
Melodrama at the Trafalgar Theatre (1894); in an American tour of A
Little Ray of Sunshine (1899) which played at Chickering Hall in
Boston and Wallack's Theatre in New York among other venues; William
Piddock in 22A, Curzon Street at the Garrick Theatre (1898): Pomponius
in A Greek Slave at the Herald Square Theatre in New York (1899); in
Little Nell and the Marchioness at the Herald Square Theatre (1900);
Lord Framlingham in Lady Madcap at the Prince of Wales Theatre (1904);
Mr Tobin in Noah's Ark at the Waldorf Theatre (1906); and the Duke of
Tysmoke in Nelly Neil at the Aldwych Theatre (1907).In July 1911
Sparling accompanied Marie George in a performance at the Palace Pier
in Brighton, where:
theatre actor and director.In 1889 Sparling was sued for breach of
contract at Brompton County Court by the "dramatic author" Henry
Plunkett Gratton (1808â€"1889), who alleged that in 1887 he and
Sparling had made an agreement that Gratton would rewrite a drama for
Sparling in return for which he would receive periodic payments from
Sparling. When asked for the second payment Sparling made various
excuses and quit his lodgings on The Strand. The outcome was that
Gratton was awarded £10 for the work he had already done.Sparling
appeared as Dudley Harcourt in My Sweetheart (1891) at the Vaudeville
Theatre; Luigi Di Volpa in F. C. Burnand's Private Enquiry (1891) at
the Strand Theatre; Lyngstrand in Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea (1891)
at Terry's Theatre; Josiah Higgins in Morocco Bound (1893); Sir
Wormwood Scrubs in Howard Talbot's comic opera Wapping Old Stairs
(1894); as Lord Lavender in The Lady Slavey (1894); Detective in A
Melodrama at the Trafalgar Theatre (1894); in an American tour of A
Little Ray of Sunshine (1899) which played at Chickering Hall in
Boston and Wallack's Theatre in New York among other venues; William
Piddock in 22A, Curzon Street at the Garrick Theatre (1898): Pomponius
in A Greek Slave at the Herald Square Theatre in New York (1899); in
Little Nell and the Marchioness at the Herald Square Theatre (1900);
Lord Framlingham in Lady Madcap at the Prince of Wales Theatre (1904);
Mr Tobin in Noah's Ark at the Waldorf Theatre (1906); and the Duke of
Tysmoke in Nelly Neil at the Aldwych Theatre (1907).In July 1911
Sparling accompanied Marie George in a performance at the Palace Pier
in Brighton, where:
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