Reginald Arkell was a British script writer and comic novelist who wrote many musical plays for the London theatre, the most popular of which was an adaptation of the spoof history book 1066 and All That, 1066—and all that: A Musical Comedy based on that Memorable History by Sellar and Yeatman. He was the author of A Cottage in the Country and the Green Fingers series of garden verse. A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative, typically in prose. ... Later paperback edition (circa late 1960s). ...

He was born on 14 October 1882 at Lechlade, Gloucestershire, England, was educated at Burford Grammar School and married actress Elizabeth Arkell. He died on 1 May 1959 at Cricklade, England. October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Location within the British Isles Lechlade is a town in Gloucestershire, England, and is the highest navigable point on the River Thames. ... May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Cricklade is a small town in north Wiltshire in England, on the River Thames, situated midway between Swindon and Cirencester. ...

Works

• The Round House (1958) (novel?)
• Charley Moon (1956?) (novel)
• The Miracle Of Merriford (1956) (novel)
• Collected Green Fingers (1956) (poems)
• Trumpets Over Merriford (1955) (novel)
• Come to the ball; or, Harlequin (1951) (adaptation of Johann Strauss II's Die Fledermaus)
• Old Herbaceous (1950, republished 2002)
• Green fingers Again (1943) (poems)
• Percy Ponsonby (1939) (TV series)
• 1066 And All That (1939) (TV version)
• The Street Singer or Interval for Romance (1937) (film musical which starred Arthur Tracy)
• Smash and Grab (1937) (film)
• Green fingers, and other poems (1936)
• The Last Waltz (1936) (film of the musical comedy)
• 1066 And All That (1935) (revue)
• A Kingdom for a Cow (1935) (adaptation of Kurt Weill's operetta Der Kuhhandel)
• Playing the Games (1935) (humour)
• Bridge Without Sighs (1934) (A Harmless Handbook to the game, written in rhyme)
• Richard Jefferies (1933) (biography)
• Winter Sportings (1929)
• Columbine - A Fantasy of Summertime (1928) (adaptation for radio)
• The Blue Train (1927) (musical, music by Robert Stolz)
• Frasquita (1925) (operetta, music by Franz Lehár)
• Our Nell (1924) (musical play, music by Ivor Novello and Harold Fraser-Simpson)
• The tragedy of Mr. Punch (1923) (play)
• Columbine (1922) (play)
• Catherine (1922) (musical play, music by Tchaikovsky)
• The Last Waltz (1922) (musical comedy, music by Oscar Straus)
• The Holidays (Children's poem in The Captain Dec 1910)

Johann Strauss II The Waltz King coming to life in the Stadtpark, Vienna Johann Strauss II (German: Johann Strauß (Sohn), Johann Strauss (son); in English also Johann Strauss the Younger, Johann Strauss Jr. ... Scene from the 1984 version. ... Arthur Tracy (25 June 1899 - 5 October 1997) [1] was a popular American singer, known world-wide as The Street Singer. Tracys fame was at its height throughout the 1930s and early 1940s thanks to his constant performances on radio, theatre, film, and records. ... Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900 – April 3, 1950), born in Dessau, Germany and died in New York City, was a German and in his later years, a German-American composer active from the 1920s until his death. ... Der Kuhhandel (A Kingdom for a Cow or Arms and the Cow) is an operetta by Kurt Weill. ... John Richard Jefferies John Richard Jefferies (November 6, 1848 - August 14, 1887 ) was an English nature writer, essayist and journalist. ... Robert Elisabeth Stolz (August 25, 1880 – June 27, 1975) was an Austrian songwriter and conductor as well as a composer of operettas and film music. ... Franz Lehár (30 April 1870 - 24 October 1948) was a Hungarian composer, mainly known for his operettas. ... Ivor Novello David Ivor Davies (January 15, 1893 – March 6, 1951), better known as Ivor Novello, was a Welsh composer, singer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the early 20th century. ... Harold Fraser-Simpson (born 15 August 1872 in London; died 19 January 1944 in Inverness, Scotland), was a British composer of songs, incidental music, and stage works. ... Pyotr (Peter) Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильич Чайкoвский, Pëtr Il’ič ÄŒajkovskij;  )[1] (7 May [O.S. 25 April] 1840 – 6 November [O.S. 25 October] 1893), was a Russian composer of the Romantic era. ...

Old Herbaceous

Old Herbaceous is a classic British novel of the garden, with a title character as outsized and unforgettable as P. G. Wodehouse’s immortal manservant, Jeeves. Born at the dusk of the Victorian era, Bert Pinnegar, an awkward orphan child with one leg a tad longer than the other, rises from inauspicious schoolboy days spent picking wildflowers and dodging angry farmers to become the legendary head gardener “Old Herbaceous,” the most esteemed flower-show judge in the county and a famed horticultural wizard capable of producing dazzling April strawberries from the greenhouse and the exact morning glories his Lady spies on the French Riviera, “so blue, so blue it positively hurts.” P. G. Wodehouse, pictured in 1904, became famous for his complex plots, ingenious wordplay, and prolific output Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE (October 15, 1881 – February 14, 1975) (IPA: ) was an English comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. ... Jeeves, here portrayed by Stephen Fry in ITVs Jeeves and Wooster series, is P.G. Wodehouses most famous character. ...

Sprinkled with nuggets of gardening wisdom, Old Herbaceous is a witty comic portrait of the most archetypal—and crotchety—head gardener ever to plant a row of bulbs at a British country house.

External links

• BBC page on Percy Ponsonby
• Reginald Arkell at the Internet Movie Database