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 s: Performed, somewhere between 1891 and 1898,  in [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Bibliothekaris]]'' by the [[rederijkerskamer]] [[Oefening Baart Kunst]] in the [[President Theatre]], Pretoria (no author mentioned).
-: Performed as ''[[The Private Secretary]]'' in the [[Good Hope Theatre]],  Cape Town, for a few nights towards the end of the year by [[Frank Wheeler]] (as "Rev Spalding") and what was apparently an inadequate "scratch" company.
+: Performed as ''[[The Private Secretary]]'' in the [[Good Hope Theatre]],  Cape Town, for a few nights towards the end of the year by [[Frank Wheeler]] (as "Rev Spalding") and what was apparently an inadequate [["scratch" company]].
 : Presented as ''[[The Private Secretary]]'' by the [[Kokstad Amateur Dramatic Society]], produced by [[S.J. Halford]], with [[A.L. Moon]], [[Douglas Halford]], [[Eric Haird]], [[Tom Christie]], [[Mrs T. Scott Warren]], [[Maud Sandwich]], [[Gertrude Wallace]]. Scenery imported from Messrs [[Samuel French]] from London, adapted for local requirements by [[Joe Cuthbert]].

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 s: Performed, somewhere between 1891 and 1898,  in [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Bibliothekaris]]'' by the [[rederijkerskamer]] [[Oefening Baart Kunst]] in the [[President Theatre]], Pretoria (no author mentioned).
-: Performed as ''[[The Private Secretary]]'' in the [[Good Hope Theatre]],  Cape Town, for a few nights towards the end of the year by [[Frank Wheeler]] (as "Rev Spalding") and an inadequate "scratch" company.
+: Performed as ''[[The Private Secretary]]'' in the [[Good Hope Theatre]],  Cape Town, for a few nights towards the end of the year by [[Frank Wheeler]] (as "Rev Spalding") and what was apparently an inadequate "scratch" company.
 : Presented as ''[[The Private Secretary]]'' by the [[Kokstad Amateur Dramatic Society]], produced by [[S.J. Halford]], with [[A.L. Moon]], [[Douglas Halford]], [[Eric Haird]], [[Tom Christie]], [[Mrs T. Scott Warren]], [[Maud Sandwich]], [[Gertrude Wallace]]. Scenery imported from Messrs [[Samuel French]] from London, adapted for local requirements by [[Joe Cuthbert]].

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 [[D.C. Boonzaier]], 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage",  in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
-[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.381, 394-5
+[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.381, 394-5, 417, 428
 [[Ludwig Wilhelm  Berthold Binge]]. 1969. ''Ontwikkeling van die Afrikaanse toneel (1832-1950)''. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik.

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	1890s: Performed, somewhere between 1891 and 1898, in [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Bibliothekaris]]'' by the [[rederijkerskamer]] [[Oefening Baart Kunst]] in the [[President Theatre]], Pretoria (no author mentioned).		1890s: Performed, somewhere between 1891 and 1898, in [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Bibliothekaris]]'' by the [[rederijkerskamer]] [[Oefening Baart Kunst]] in the [[President Theatre]], Pretoria (no author mentioned).
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		+	1903: Performed as ''[[The Private Secretary]]'' in the [[Good Hope Theatre]], Cape Town, for a few nights towards the end of the year by [[Frank Wheeler]] (as "Rev Spalding") and an inadequate "scratch" company.

	1929: Presented as ''[[The Private Secretary]]'' by the [[Kokstad Amateur Dramatic Society]], produced by [[S.J. Halford]], with [[A.L. Moon]], [[Douglas Halford]], [[Eric Haird]], [[Tom Christie]], [[Mrs T. Scott Warren]], [[Maud Sandwich]], [[Gertrude Wallace]]. Scenery imported from Messrs [[Samuel French]] from London, adapted for local requirements by [[Joe Cuthbert]].		1929: Presented as ''[[The Private Secretary]]'' by the [[Kokstad Amateur Dramatic Society]], produced by [[S.J. Halford]], with [[A.L. Moon]], [[Douglas Halford]], [[Eric Haird]], [[Tom Christie]], [[Mrs T. Scott Warren]], [[Maud Sandwich]], [[Gertrude Wallace]]. Scenery imported from Messrs [[Samuel French]] from London, adapted for local requirements by [[Joe Cuthbert]].

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 : Performed as ''[[The Private Secretary]]'' by the [[Wheeler Brothers Company]] in the [[Theatre Royal]] in Burg Street, Cape Town, with ''[[Irish Justice]]'' (Anon./Morton?) in May. It was their opening production there, and [[Frank Wheeler]] played the leading roles in both plays ("Reverend Spalding" and "Peter Mulvaney").
 : Performed as ''[[The Private Secretary]]'' in the [[Vaudeville Theatre]], Cape Town, by the visiting [[Emilie Bevan Comedy Company]] as part of a three-and-a-half month season of 20 plays which began on 8 August.
-s: Performed in [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Bibliothekaris]]'' by the [[rederijkerskamer]] [[Oefening Baart Kunst]] in the [[President Theatre]], Pretoria (no author mentioned).
+s: Performed, somewhere between 1891 and 1898,  in [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Bibliothekaris]]'' by the [[rederijkerskamer]] [[Oefening Baart Kunst]] in the [[President Theatre]], Pretoria (no author mentioned).
 : Presented as ''[[The Private Secretary]]'' by the [[Kokstad Amateur Dramatic Society]], produced by [[S.J. Halford]], with [[A.L. Moon]], [[Douglas Halford]], [[Eric Haird]], [[Tom Christie]], [[Mrs T. Scott Warren]], [[Maud Sandwich]], [[Gertrude Wallace]]. Scenery imported from Messrs [[Samuel French]] from London, adapted for local requirements by [[Joe Cuthbert]].

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 ==Translations and adaptations==
-Translated into [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Bibliothecaris]]'' by an anonymous author in the 1880s.
+Translated into [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Bibliothecaris]]'' by an anonymous author, probably in the early 1880s.
 The play was translated into English and adapted  by Charles Hawtrey (1858-1923)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hawtrey_(actor,_born_1858)] and re-titled as '''''[[The Private Secretary]]'''''.  The English play originally had four acts, but was soon reduced to three acts and became very successful, running at the Cambridge Royal Theatre in 1883 before being brought to London in 1884, and playing there until 1886. Hawtrey himself revived the play twice, in 1892 at the Comedy Theatre, and in 1895 at the Avenue Theatre.

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	[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.381, 394-5		[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.381, 394-5
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		+	[[Ludwig Wilhelm Berthold Binge]]. 1969. ''Ontwikkeling van die Afrikaanse toneel (1832-1950)''. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik.
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		+	[[P.J. du Toit]]. 1988. ''Amateurtoneel in Suid-Afrika''. Pretoria: Academica.
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		+	[[Jill Fletcher]]. 1994. ''The Story of Theatre in South Africa: A Guide to its History from 1780-1930''. Cape Town: Vlaeberg.

	''Footlights'' 1(5):12, 1929.		''Footlights'' 1(5):12, 1929.

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	1892: Performed as ''[[The Private Secretary]]'' in the [[Vaudeville Theatre]], Cape Town, by the visiting [[Emilie Bevan Comedy Company]] as part of a three-and-a-half month season of 20 plays which began on 8 August.		1892: Performed as ''[[The Private Secretary]]'' in the [[Vaudeville Theatre]], Cape Town, by the visiting [[Emilie Bevan Comedy Company]] as part of a three-and-a-half month season of 20 plays which began on 8 August.
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		+	1890s: Performed in [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Bibliothekaris]]'' by the [[rederijkerskamer]] [[Oefening Baart Kunst]] in the [[President Theatre]], Pretoria (no author mentioned).

	1929: Presented as ''[[The Private Secretary]]'' by the [[Kokstad Amateur Dramatic Society]], produced by [[S.J. Halford]], with [[A.L. Moon]], [[Douglas Halford]], [[Eric Haird]], [[Tom Christie]], [[Mrs T. Scott Warren]], [[Maud Sandwich]], [[Gertrude Wallace]]. Scenery imported from Messrs [[Samuel French]] from London, adapted for local requirements by [[Joe Cuthbert]].		1929: Presented as ''[[The Private Secretary]]'' by the [[Kokstad Amateur Dramatic Society]], produced by [[S.J. Halford]], with [[A.L. Moon]], [[Douglas Halford]], [[Eric Haird]], [[Tom Christie]], [[Mrs T. Scott Warren]], [[Maud Sandwich]], [[Gertrude Wallace]]. Scenery imported from Messrs [[Samuel French]] from London, adapted for local requirements by [[Joe Cuthbert]].

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	==Translations and adaptations==		==Translations and adaptations==
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		+	Translated into [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Bibliothecaris]]'' by an anonymous author in the 1880s.

	The play was translated into English and adapted by Charles Hawtrey (1858-1923)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hawtrey_(actor,_born_1858)] and re-titled as '''''[[The Private Secretary]]'''''. The English play originally had four acts, but was soon reduced to three acts and became very successful, running at the Cambridge Royal Theatre in 1883 before being brought to London in 1884, and playing there until 1886. Hawtrey himself revived the play twice, in 1892 at the Comedy Theatre, and in 1895 at the Avenue Theatre.		The play was translated into English and adapted by Charles Hawtrey (1858-1923)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hawtrey_(actor,_born_1858)] and re-titled as '''''[[The Private Secretary]]'''''. The English play originally had four acts, but was soon reduced to three acts and became very successful, running at the Cambridge Royal Theatre in 1883 before being brought to London in 1884, and playing there until 1886. Hawtrey himself revived the play twice, in 1892 at the Comedy Theatre, and in 1895 at the Avenue Theatre.

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−	1866: Performed as ''[[The Private Secretary]]'' by the [[Wheeler Brothers Company]] in the [[Theatre Royal]] in Burg Street, Cape Town, with ''[[Irish Justice]]'' (Anon.) in May. It was their opening production there, and [[Frank Wheeler]] played the leading roles in both plays ("Reverend Spalding" and "Peter Mulvaney").	+	1866: Performed as ''[[The Private Secretary]]'' by the [[Wheeler Brothers Company]] in the [[Theatre Royal]] in Burg Street, Cape Town, with ''[[Irish Justice]]'' (Anon./Morton?) in May. It was their opening production there, and [[Frank Wheeler]] played the leading roles in both plays ("Reverend Spalding" and "Peter Mulvaney").

	1892: Performed as ''[[The Private Secretary]]'' in the [[Vaudeville Theatre]], Cape Town, by the visiting [[Emilie Bevan Comedy Company]] as part of a three-and-a-half month season of 20 plays which began on 8 August.		1892: Performed as ''[[The Private Secretary]]'' in the [[Vaudeville Theatre]], Cape Town, by the visiting [[Emilie Bevan Comedy Company]] as part of a three-and-a-half month season of 20 plays which began on 8 August.