Robert Sparrow Smythe
Robert Sparrow Smythe (19**-19**)
Also known as Robert Smythe
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Biography
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
He and his wife wife, the soprano Amelia Bailey, joined forces with violinist Horace Poussard and the "serio-comic vocalist" Florence Calzado, to found the Poussard-Bailey Opera Company, with which they undertook a 4-year tour of India and South Africa, giving more than 300 performances.
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.
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