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[[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.)

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Ada Ward


Biography

Ada Ward was an English actress and singer, who first appeared on the London stage in the mid-1870s. She went to tour the colonies and become a star in Australia in the 1880s. She later also worked in the United States.

She caused a sensation in 1897 by leaving the stage and joining the Salvation Army as a preacher and going on to work in the slums of London.


She had been twice married, divorcing one husband and outliving the second.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

She performed in South Africa in the period July to November 1878, working with a few visiting companies, including performances in the Athenaeum Hall for the Egerton and Case Company and the Theatre Royal , Cape Town, with Henry Smith and Richard Thatcher (the Smith and Thatcher Company).

Awards, etc

Sources

http://www.19thcenturyphotos.com/Ada-Ward-125548.htm

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, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.372.

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