Sylvia Cavalho

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Sylvia Cavalho ()[] was an actress.

Biography

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

She and Clifford Pembroke were the leading performers for the Wheeler Brothers when they put on The Sign of the Cross at the Opera House, Cape Town, as their opening production on 19 November, 1904. Boonzaier referred to them as a "clever couple".

Sources

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 1923. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.421-2

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