1. Glen MacDonough was an American lyricist, librettist, and playwright.
10 Facts About Glen MacDonough
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Glen MacDonough is best-remembered today as the librettist of Victor Herbert's operetta, Babes in Toyland.
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Glen MacDonough [then] determined to abandon journalism and turn to the drama for a livelihood.
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Glen MacDonough's second work, The Algerian, was a collaboration with songwriter Reginald DeKoven.
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Glen MacDonough's name is associated with more than two dozen plays and musical works.
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Between 1896 and 1909, Glen MacDonough collaborated with Herbert on four other operettas besides Babes in Toyland: The Gold Bug, It Happened in Nordland, Wonderland, and Algeria.
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Glen MacDonough was the American adapter of Johann Strauss' last work, Vienna Life, and of Franz Lehar's The Count of Luxembourg.
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Glen MacDonough was one of the nine founding members of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in 1914.
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Glen MacDonough wrote continuously until the year before his death in Stamford, Connecticut, on March 30,1924.
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Glen MacDonough married Margaret Jefferson in 1896 in Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts.