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''[[A Bachelor's Dream]]'' is a [[variety]] sketch by an unknown author.
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''[[A Bachelor's Dream]]'' is a play by Hamilton Coleman ()[].
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==
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The short play ''[[A Bachelor's Dream]]'' by Hamilton Coleman was first copyrighted in Chicago in 1913.
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Boonzaier (1923) mentions a 1910 South African performance of a [[variety]] sketch by an unknown author also called ''[[A Bachelor's Dream]]''. However, it is probably an early version of Coleman's text.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
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== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
  
American Music Hall, Various acts (Programme: March 1, 1909)[http://digital.chipublib.org/digital/collection/CPB01/id/4077/]
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''Catalogue of Copyright Entries: Pamphlets, leaflets, contributions to newspapers or periodicals, etc.''; lectures, sermons, addresses for oral delivery; dramatic compositions; maps; motion pictures, Volume 10, Issue 1: Library of Congress. Copyright Office[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=OxADAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA380&lpg=PA380&dq=A+Bachelor%27s+Dream+a+vaudeville+sketch+by&source=bl&ots=t3h3Czg0bl&sig=ACfU3U2_JkLdG37bBvOAXQqHJa_o4wqLgQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjmn5m1o5PlAhVsQRUIHaZ9BPgQ6AEwBHoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=A%20Bachelor's%20Dream%20a%20vaudeville%20sketch%20by&f=false]
  
 
[[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 [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
 
[[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 [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)

Revision as of 05:46, 11 October 2019

A Bachelor's Dream is a play by Hamilton Coleman ()[].

The original text

The short play A Bachelor's Dream by Hamilton Coleman was first copyrighted in Chicago in 1913.

Boonzaier (1923) mentions a 1910 South African performance of a variety sketch by an unknown author also called A Bachelor's Dream. However, it is probably an early version of Coleman's text.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1910: Performed by The Edouin-Edwards Company at the Opera House, Cape Town, in April of 1910, as part of a Variety Entertainment that also included The Kleptomaniacs (Winslow).

Sources

Catalogue of Copyright Entries: Pamphlets, leaflets, contributions to newspapers or periodicals, etc.; lectures, sermons, addresses for oral delivery; dramatic compositions; maps; motion pictures, Volume 10, Issue 1: Library of Congress. Copyright Office[1]

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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