Ernest Searelle Comedy Company

According to D.C. Boonzaier (1923, as cited in Bosman, 1980, p. 403), a company called the Ernest Searelle Comedy Company toured South Africa in the late 19th century, giving an excellent performance of The New Boy (Lumley) in Cape Town in 1895, with a cast that consisted of Hope Dudley, Herbert Flemming, Leslie Kenyon and William Devereux.

However, no further mention of the name Ernest Searelle has been found in any other source and, though the name of the company does appear in the Index to Bosman (1980, p.511), the name of a person called Ernest Searelle does not. It is thus just possible that either Boonzaier (1923) or Bosman (in citing Boonzaier on p. 403) may have made a mistake and gotten the name wrong in this case. In that case the reference is in actual fact a reference to one of Luscombe Searelle's enterprises. Possibly named the Luscombe Searelle Comedy Company (or the Searelle Comedy Company).