Under Two Flags

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Under Two Flags

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Under Two Flags, a 1901 Broadway play by Paul M. Potter that ran for 135 performances at the Garden Theatre, starring Blanche Bates and Maclyn Arbuckle, directed by David Belasco and produced by Charles Frohman.

Performance history in South Africa

1903: Performed by Leonard Rayne and his company, it opened on 20th June 1903, at the Gaiety Theatre, Johannesburg. The cast and crew included the actor and stage manager Arthur Sinbad Pitt.

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 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: pp.203-205

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