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[[Frank de Jongh]] ()[] was a Cape Town based impresario. 
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==Biography==
 
 
 
 
 
==Contribution to South African theatre==
 
 
 
 
 
=== As manager ===
 
 
 
 
 
He leased the Cape Town [[Opera House]] almost continuously from 1896-1937, initially in association with [[William Haviland]].
 
 
 
There he housed his [[Gaiety Companies]], consisting of well-known overseas performers and artistes, including [[Zena Dare]], [[Matheson Lang]], [[Sybil Thorndike]], [[Lewis Casson]], [[Irene Vanbrugh]] and [[Kate Vaughan]] in a variety of plays, operas and ballets between 1896 and 1937.
 
 
 
In 1899 he and [[Herbert Flemming]] brought the [[Arthur Rousbey Opera Company]] to South Africa to perform a season of operas in Cape Town's [[Opera House]].
 
 
 
Following on the success of [[Stephen Black]]'s ''[[Love and the Hyphen]]'', he and [[Stephen Black|Black]] organized the [[Frank de Jongh-Stephen Black Company]] (also known simply as the [[De Jongh-Black Company]], to perform a the [[Tivoli Theatre]], Cape Town. The company had been newly recruited in England and they opened on 12 January with ''[[Smith]]'' (Maugham).   
 
 
 
 
 
=== As performer ===
 
 
 
 
 
His many roles included "Svengali" in ''[[Trilby]]'', the lead in ''[[Hamlet]]'', "Matthias" in ''[[The Bells]]'' (1896)
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
 
 
[[D.C. Boonzaier]], 1980. "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.)
 
 
 
[[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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