Le Bal Masqué - Revision history

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 ==Translations and adaptations==
-A "side-splitting entertainment" called ''[[The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam)]]'' (or simply ''[[The Bal Masqué]]'') was apparently well known in Cape Town in the 1860s and is ascribed to Arthur H. Ward by [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1980: p. 260). However this is highly unlikely to be true since Ward was only born in 1883. It must have been earlier, burlesque-style work.
+A "side-splitting entertainment" known by a variety of names, e.g. ''[[The Bal Masqué]]'' or ''[[Sloppy Sam the Confidential Ticket Collector]]''), ''[[The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam)]]'' or simply ''[[The Bal Masqué]]'',  this was apparently a [[Christy]] style act, well known in Cape Town in the 1860s It is ascribed to Arthur H. Ward by [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1980: p. 260), as the author of ''[[Le Bal Masqué]]'', but this is highly unlikely to be true since Ward was only born in 1883. It must have been earlier, burlesque-style work.
 '''See ''[[The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam)]]'''''

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 According to Allardyce Nicoll (1975), this was first performed at the Parkhurst Theatre on 16 May, 1898 and billed as a "new opera" done by the Battersby Juvenile Opera in Eastbourne on 25 May 1898.
-A possible '''source''' may have been ''[[The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam)]]'', which appears to have been an earlier, burlesque-style work, well known in Cape Town in the 1860s. Though ascribed to Arthur H. Ward by [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1980: p. 260), this was clearly untrue, since Ward was only born in 1883.
+''[[The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam)]]'', which appears to have been an earlier, burlesque-style work, well known among the [[Garrison Players]] in Port Elizabeth and Cape Town in the 1860s. [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1980: p. 260) ascribes it to Arthur H. Ward, but this is clearly impossible, since Ward was only born in 1883. However, it may have been a possible '''source''' for Ward's comic opera.
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 According to Allardyce Nicoll (1975), this was first performed at the Parkhurst Theatre on 16 May, 1898 and billed as a "new opera" done by the Battersby Juvenile Opera in Eastbourne on 25 May 1898.
-A possible '''source''' may have been ''[[The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam)]]'', which appears to have been an earlier, burlesque-style work well known in Cape Town in the 1860s. Though ascribed to Arthur H. Ward by [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1980: p. 260), this was clearly untrue, since Ward was only born in 1883.
+A possible '''source''' may have been ''[[The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam)]]'', which appears to have been an earlier, burlesque-style work, well known in Cape Town in the 1860s. Though ascribed to Arthur H. Ward by [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1980: p. 260), this was clearly untrue, since Ward was only born in 1883.
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 According to Allardyce Nicoll (1975), this was first performed at the Parkhurst Theatre on 16 May, 1898 and billed as a "new opera" done by the Battersby Juvenile Opera in Eastbourne on 25 May 1898.
-A possible source may have been ''[[The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam)]]'', which appears to have been an earlier, burlesque-style work well known in Cape Town in the 1860s. Though ascribed to Arthur H. Ward by [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1980: p. 260), this was clearly untrue, since Ward was only born in 1883.
+A possible '''source''' may have been ''[[The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam)]]'', which appears to have been an earlier, burlesque-style work well known in Cape Town in the 1860s. Though ascribed to Arthur H. Ward by [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1980: p. 260), this was clearly untrue, since Ward was only born in 1883.
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 ''[[Le Bal Masqué]]'' ("The masked ball") is a comic opera[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_opera] by Arthur Henry Ward (1883–1959)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sax_Rohmer], with music by Henry Vernon.
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 According to Allardyce Nicoll (1975), this was first performed at the Parkhurst Theatre on 16 May, 1898 and billed as a "new opera" done by the Battersby Juvenile Opera in Eastbourne on 25 May 1898.
+A possible source may have been ''[[The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam)]]'', which appears to have been an earlier, burlesque-style work well known in Cape Town in the 1860s. Though ascribed to Arthur H. Ward by [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1980: p. 260), this was clearly untrue, since Ward was only born in 1883.
 ==Translations and adaptations==

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 ''[[Le Bal Masqué]]'' ("The masked ball") is a comic opera[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_opera] by Arthur Henry Ward (1883–1959)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sax_Rohmer], with music by Henry Vernon.
 ==The original text==
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 ==Translations and adaptations==
-A "side-splitting entertainment" called ''[[The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam)]]'' was apparently well known in Cape Town in the 1860s and is ascribed to Arthur H. Ward by [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1980: p. 260). However this is highly unlikely to be true since Ward was only born in 1883. It must have been earlier, burlesque-style work.
+A "side-splitting entertainment" called ''[[The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam)]]'' (or simply ''[[The Bal Masqué]]'') was apparently well known in Cape Town in the 1860s and is ascribed to Arthur H. Ward by [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1980: p. 260). However this is highly unlikely to be true since Ward was only born in 1883. It must have been earlier, burlesque-style work.
 == Performance history in South Africa ==
-: Performed on 15 June by the [[9th Regiment]] in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town. Part of a Dramatic and Gymnastic Entertainment" which also included a "Gymnastics Display" and as ''[[The Rose of Ettrick Vale]]'' (Lynch), a "beautiful Scotch National Drama".
 == Sources ==
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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.260,
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	''[[Le Bal Masqué]]'' ("The masked ball") is a comic opera[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_opera] by Arthur Henry Ward (1883–1959)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sax_Rohmer], with music by Henry Vernon.		''[[Le Bal Masqué]]'' ("The masked ball") is a comic opera[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_opera] by Arthur Henry Ward (1883–1959)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sax_Rohmer], with music by Henry Vernon.
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		+	Sometimes also found as ''[[The Bal Masqué]]''

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	== Performance history in South Africa ==		== Performance history in South Africa ==
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		+	1867: Performed on 15 June by the [[9th Regiment]] in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town. Part of a Dramatic and Gymnastic Entertainment" which also included a "Gymnastics Display" and as ''[[The Rose of Ettrick Vale]]'' (), a "beautiful Scotch National Drama".

	== Sources ==		== Sources ==