John Thomas Haines
John Thomas Haines was a British actor and dramatist
Life
Born about 1799, from 1823 for two decades he supplied the smaller London theatres with melodramas of the "blood-and-thunder" type, with general success. His sea-plays were vehicles for T. P. Cooke, and My Poll and my Partner Joe, a nautical drama in three acts, produced at the Surrey Theatre on 7 September 1835, was notably profitable.Haines occasionally acted in his own pieces. He died at Stockwell on 18 May 1843, aged 44, at the time stage-manager of the English Opera House.
Works
Among Haines's plays were:The Idiot Witness; or a Tale of Blood, melodrama in two acts. Jacob Faithful; or the Life of a Thames Waterman, domestic local drama in three acts. Richard Plantagenet, historical drama in three acts. The Ocean of Life; or Every Inch a Sailor, nautical drama in three acts. Maidens Beware!, burletta in one act. Breakers Ahead! or a Seaman's Log, nautical drama in three acts. Angeline Le Lis, original drama in one act. The Charming Polly; or Lucky or Unlucky Days, drama in two acts. Alice Grey, the Suspected One; or the Moral Brand, domestic drama in three acts. Nick of the Woods; or the Altar of Revenge, a melodrama. The Wizard of the Wave; or the Ship of the Avenger, a legendary nautical drama in three acts. The Yew Tree Ruins; or the Wreck, the Miser, and the Mines, domestic drama in three acts. Ruth; or the Lass that Loves a Sailor, a nautical and domestic drama in three acts. Austerlitz; or the Soldier's Bride, melodrama in three acts. Amilie, or the Love Test, opera in three acts. The Wraith of the Lake; or the Brownie's Brig, melodrama in three acts. Rattlin the Reefer; or the Tiger of the Sea, nautical drama in three acts.The Wizard Skiff, nautical dramaHaines also adapted and arranged from the French of Eugène Scribe and Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges the songs, duets, quartettes, recitatives, and choruses in the opera of Queen for a Day. Set to music by Adolphe Adam, it was first performed at the Surrey Theatre on 14 June 1841.