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Robert Bache Smith was an American librettist and lyricist who started out in vaudeville and went on to write libretti for operettas and lyrics for musicals, including such works as Fantana (1905), A Knight for a Day (19071910), The Spring Maid (1910), Sweethearts (1913), and Angel Face (1919). His last work was The Girl in the Spotlight in 1920.