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''[[Le Gastronome sans Argent]]'' ("The gourmet without money")  is a vaudeville in one act by  Eugène Scribe (1791–1861)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Scribe] and the librettist Brulay.

== The original text ==

First performed at the Théâtre du Gymnase Dramatique in Paris on 10 March 1821 and published by Fages in 1821. 

== Translations and adaptations ==

Translated into English as '''''[[A Race for a Dinner, or "No Dinner Yet"]]''''' (or also known as ''[[His Race for a Dinner]]'', ''[[A Race for a Dinner]]'' or ''[[A Race for Dinner]]'') by James Thomas Goodenham Rodwell (?-1825)[] (in some sources with George Daniel). 

The translation was first performed at Covent Garden Theatre in 1828, apparently after Rodwell's death in 1825,  and published the same year in London (Thomas Hailes Lacy and/or Samuel French). Performed and published in New York in 1829.

== Performance history in South Africa ==

1833: Performed in English as ''[[A Race for Dinner]]'' by the [[All the World's a Stage]] on 21 September, with''[[The Day After the Wedding, or A Wife’s First Lesson]]'', the comic sketch of ''[[The Actress Of All Work]]'' (by Oxberry, though the author is said to be unknown in the source) and the farce ''[[Rival Valets]]'' (Ebsworth).

1854: Performed in English as ''[[A Race for a Dinner]]'' by the [[City Amateur Theatrical Society]] on Wednesday, 26th July in the Dutch Company's [[Bree Street Theatre]] (corner of Dorp Street), Cape Town. It followed ''[[Hamlet]]'' (Act 3)  and was followed by ''[[The Secret]]'' (Morris) and ''[[Ion]]'' (Talfourd).

== Sources ==

Facsimile version of the first French edition in 1821, Google E-Book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=vN0PAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=Le+Gastronome+sans+Argent&source=bl&ots=ELzlN-dCcC&sig=jRSVK3dDWiFUb9XAlz8klFRFDSE&hl=af&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwik666o2sbKAhVJChoKHSIvDqIQ6AEIGTAA#v=onepage&q=Le%20Gastronome%20sans%20Argent&f=false]

https://archive.org/details/racefordinnerfar00rodw

http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr94021884.html

http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009564854

http://www.worldcat.org/title/race-for-a-dinner-or-no-dinner-yet-a-farce-in-one-act-adapted-from-the-french/oclc/38482498?ht=edition&referer=di

[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855''. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 227, 426.

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