"He may have been related to Worton David, librettist of many musicals of the post-1914 era and co-composer of revue songs such as I Want to be Somebody's Baby, I Do Like a S'Nice S'Mince S'Pie, I Want to Sing in Opera and The Rest Of the Day's Your Own. Christabel Marillier rose to at least modest fame with her music for The Rose and the Ring (1928), a light opera/musical fantasy after Thackeray, similar to a ballad opera in style, which was premiered at Eastbourne then reached the West End (Apollo, then the Playhouse) for 52 outings. Malcolm Sargent conducted some of the earlier performances; in 1929 it was revived at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith under Alfred Reynolds. Marillier was, seemingly, virtually a "one work" composer, but songs like The Lent Lily did achieve publication."


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