After beginning the 1930s with a series of non-musical plays: "I Lived with You" (1932), "Fresh Fields", "Proscenium", "Sunshine Sisters", "Flies in the Sun" (all 1933) and "Murder in Mayfair" (1934), Novello returned to composition in 1935 with "Glamorous Night", which was the first of a series of enormously popular musicals. "The Times" considered that it was for these that Novello would be popularly remembered. Paul Webb, in the "Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians", writes that Novello's show saved the fortunes of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane: