Lord and Lady Algy

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Lord and Lady Algy is a comedy by R.C. Carton ()[]

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Performance history in South Africa

1899: Performed by a company led by Frank Atherley, under the management of the Wheeler-Edwardes Company, appearing in the Opera House, Cape Town, early in the year.

1903: Performed by the Sass and Nelson Company, appearing in the Opera House, Cape Town, in June, with Emma Glynne as "Lady Algernon Chetland".

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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