Benn Wolfe Levy's first play, This Woman Business, produced in 1925, began a career in the British theater that spanned the turbulent middle years of the twentieth century. Working in a variety of dramatic styles, he wrote comedies, farces, Gothic and psychological melodramas, thesis plays, fantasy dramas, and a musical. Adaptations of works by book authors such as Hugh Walpole, Gustave Flaubert, Marcel Pagnol, Bruno Frank; collaborations with Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Hubert Griffith, Paul Hervey Fox; and reworking of legends such as the Don Juan and the Antiope-Hippolyta stories illustrate the varied nature of his work. Levy was frequently mistaken for an American because some of his plays were given American premieres and were enormously successful in the United States. One of these, Springtime for Henry (1931), provided almost an entire acting career for the well-known American actor Edward Everett Horton, who toured in the title role for eighteen...