Elsie Salomon

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Elsie Salomon (18*-19*) Speech teacher and director, Johannesburg.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

As director

1925: Snowdrop and the Seven Dwarfs (with Poppins Salomon)

1935: Lady Windermere's Fan (Bantu Dramatic Society)

1935: Conflicting Worlds (a reading at the Standard Theatre, Johannesburg)

1937: Lewis Sowden’s Red Rand (Repertory Reading Group, Library Theatre)

As actress

She acted in a 1929 production of The Lady of Belmont.

Sources

Leveson, 2011. 186.

Footlights, 1(3):14. 1929.

Rand Daily Mail, 15 June 1935.

Greyvenstein, Walter 1988. The history and development of children's theatre in English in South Africa. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Johannesburg: Rand Afrikaans University.

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