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#REDIRECT[[Brown and the Brahmins, , or Captain Pop and The Princess Pretty-eyes!]]
 
#REDIRECT[[Brown and the Brahmins, , or Captain Pop and The Princess Pretty-eyes!]]
 
 
''[[Brown and the Brahmins, or Captain Pop and The Princess Pretty-eyes!]]'' is an "oriental [[burlesque]]" by Robert Reece
 
 
 
 
Published in London by T.H. Lacy, 1869.
 
 
1875: Billed as "An Ashantee Dance and Chorus" and presented by "a band of coloured boys picked from the the streets of Cape Town" led by [[Mr Elton]] and presented under the auspices of [[Disney Roebuck]] on 24 July. The novelty of seeing coloured folk on the stage for the first time combined with their "extrvagant contortions of body and limb and grotesque action" apparently set audiences in a furore, though the idea was well received by ''[[The Argus]]'' on July 27.  It was done as afterpiece to ''[[Leah, or The Jewish Maiden]]'' (Mosenthal?).
 
 
1875: Presented again under the auspices of [[Disney Roebuck]]  on 26 July, with ''[[Lady Audley's Secret]]'',
 
 
1875: Repeated on 28 July, with 
 
 
 
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