 A lawyer, Faraday composed songs and musical theatre pieces and managed English operetta companies in the years immediately prior to World War I.Two years earlier, he had composed the successful comic opera "Amasis" (1906) Fenn later adapted into English, with much success, "The Girl in the Taxi" (1912; produced by Faraday).A review of "A Welsh Sunset" in "The Times" found the piece overly sentimental, especially the ending, but liked Jenny's opening song and the overture.