The Money Makers

The Money Makers is a "sporting farce" by George Rollit ()[].

Also found as The Moneymakers

The original text

The plot deals with two young women who try to make money by tipping horses. The furious punters blame the deacon when they tip a horse which has been scratched.

First produced at the Royalty Theatre, London, on 13 May 1904. and on Broadway at the Liberty Theatre on 16 January, 1905.

Performance history in South Africa

1905: Performed in South Africa by Leonard Rayne and his company as part of a season of plays, inter alia playing in the Opera House, Cape Town.

Sources

J.P. Wearing. 2013. The London Stage 1890-1899: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. (Second, revised edition, p. 423). Scarecrow Press, Google E-book[1]

https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/George-Rollitt/

https://www.playbill.com/person/george-rollitt-vault-0000006312

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 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: p.422

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