Who'll Lend Me Five Shillings?

Who'll Lend Me Five Shillings? is a farce by an unknown writer.

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Performance history in South Africa

1859: Performed as Who'll Lend Me Five Shillings? by the Sefton Parry and his company in the in the Cape Town Theatre, on 25 November, with a "Highland Fling" by Miss Powell and The Farmer's Story, or The Three Trials of Life (Bernard)== 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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