13, Simon Street
13, Simon Street is a play in one act by Anthony P. Wharton (pseudonym for Alexander McAllister - 1877-1940).
The original text
Published in New York by Samuel French, c1913.
Performed in South Africa
1929: It was one of the plays performed by a West End theatre company from London, led by actor-manager Gerald Lawrence, which toured South Africa and Rhodesia, putting on a portfolio of five plays. The tour played in venues owned by African Theatres Ltd. and started in Johannesburg on 1st April 1929 and finished in Cape Town on 3rd October.
Sources
http://www.oxfordreference.com/search?q=McAllister,%20Alexander
http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009562592
Robert Kay. 2011. "Gerald Lawrence, Elgar and the missing Beau Brummel Music", The Elgar Society Journal: pp.4-28[1]
http://www.elgar.org/3brummel.htm
The S.A. Merry-Go-Round, 2(4):28. August 21st, 1929.
Correspondence from Robert Kay of Acuta Music[2], Monday 13 July, 2015.
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