Maude Clifford
Maude Clifford (fl. 1873-1874) was an actress.
Also billed as Miss Clifford.
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She came to South Africa as a member of Disney Roebuck's first company that arrived in the country in 1873 for performances in Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and King Williamstown.
She was largely used in supporting roles, and had great success playing the "precocious Sam Willoughby" in The Ticket of Leave Man (Brisebarre and Nus/Taylor).
In King Williamstown however, she fell out with Roebuck and sought to she left the company with E.V. Sinclair and Brougham. However this ended in the courts, since Roebuck argued that she had broken her contract. She was fined and prevented from leaving the company.
She is next heard of as performing with her husband, E.V. Sinclair (whom she had apparently married by then) in a panorama in the interior and offering a series of "entertainments" in the Graaff-Reinet Town Hall with the help of the local "Gentlemen Amateurs" during December.
Sources
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 306, 316-318, 361
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