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