Alfred Delilia

Alfred Delilia, full name Alfred Georges Marie Delilia, (16 September 1844 – 5 May 1916) was a French playwright, journalist, and chansonnier.

Biography A journalist under the pseudonyms Georges Davray for L'Événement and Alfred Didier for Le Voltaire, publication director of the L'Écho de la Légion d'honneur, he was dramaturge of the Théâtre Antoine. From 1897, his plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the end of the 19th-century and the beginning of the 20th including the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, Théâtre Déjazet, and the Théâtre des Délassements-Comiques.

Works

On nous écrit de Marseille, vaudeville in 1 act, 1867 Au Grand-Cerf, vaudeville in 3 acts, with Charles Le Senne, 1869 La Bonne à Venture, vaudeville in 1 act, with Le Senne, 1872 Les Mémoires d'un flageolet, vaudeville in 3 acts, with Le Senne, 1872 Le Théâtre Scribe, à-propos in verses, with Le Senne, 1874 Allons bébé !, song, music by Robert Planquette, 1879 Le Bout de l'an de l'amour !, song, music by Planquette, 1883 Je ne suis pas vantard, monologue, 1883 L'Inventeur, monologue, 1885 Le Terrible Bonnivet, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act, with Émile Seurat, 1885 Les Chastes, couplets, with Paul Ferrier, music by Lucien Delormel, 1893 Olympia, ballet in 2 acts, music by Antoine Banès, 1893 La Revue sans gêne, revue in 3 acts, 9 tableaux, with Henri Blondeau and Hector Monréal, 1894 Tout Paris à l'Olympia, revue in 2 acts and 3 tableaux, with Ferrier, 1897 Qui va à la chasse, operetta in 1 act, with Eugène Héros, music by Émile Duhem, 1898 La Czarda, 1900 Le Monsieur de chez Maxim, with Ernest Henri Demanne, 1900 Séduction !, valse chantée, music by Jane Vieu, 1902 La Valse des rousses, poem, music by Vieu, 1904 La Femme de César, comedy in 1 act, with Serge Basset, 1905 Trottinette !, valse chantée, with Marguerite Ugalde, 1907