Russell Janney (1884-1963) was a producer and author, best known for his first novel The Miracle of the Bells. He also produced and co-authored the 1925 musical The Vagabond King, with Brian Hooker and composer Rudolf Friml. Other productions include Marjolaine (1922) based on Pomander Walk by Louis N. Parker; White Eagle (1927) based on Edwin Milton Royle’s The Squaw Man;June Love; Ballyhoo (1927) and an adaption of The O’Flynn (1934) by Justin Huntly McCarthy. Janney’s second novel, So Long As Love Remembers, was published in 1953, followed by Curtain Call in 1957. Janney was born in Wilmington, Ohio and graduated from Yale University in 1906. He died in New York City on July 14, 1963.