Frank de Jongh

Frank de Jongh [] was a Cape Town based impresario.

As manager
He leased the Cape Town Opera House almost continuously from 1896-1937, initially in assocaiation with William Haviland.

There he housed his Gaiety Companies, consisting of well-known overseas performers and artistes, including Zena Dare, Matheson Lang, Sybil Thorndike, Lewis Casson, Irene Vanbrugh and Kate Vaughan in a variety of plays, operas and ballets between 1896 and 1937.

In 1899 he and Herbert Flemming brought the Arthur Rousbey Opera Company to South Africa to perform a season of operas in Cape Town's Opera House.

As performer
His many roles included "Svengali" in Trilby, the lead in Hamlet, "Matthias" in The Bells (1896)

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