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[[Harry Rickards]] ()[] was an American "comic vocalist"
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[[Harry Rickards]] ()[] was an American "comic vocalist" and circus performer
  
 
== Biography ==
 
== Biography ==
  
 
==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
 
==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
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===Performances as comic vocalist===
  
  
 
===[[The Rickards Combination]]===
 
===[[The Rickards Combination]]===
  
This name is given to a company of circus performers led by the "[[Great Rickards]]", [[Lottie D'Aste]], [[Katrine Angellian]], [[Frank Angellian]], performing "The Flying Trapeze, Miraculous Dives, Daring Flights" on 27 October 1877 as an after performance to ''[[Waiting for the Verdict, or Falsely Accused]]'' (   
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This name is given to an act consisting of "The Flying Trapeze, Miraculous Dives, Daring Flights" presented by the "[[Great Rickards]]", [[Lottie D'Aste]], [[Katrine Angellian]] and [[Frank Angellian]], presented on 27 October 1877 in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, as an after performance to ''[[Waiting for the Verdict, or Falsely Accused]]'' (Hazlewood) and a ballad by [[Miss Wynne]].  
  
  

Revision as of 05:55, 27 March 2021

Harry Rickards ()[] was an American "comic vocalist" and circus performer

Biography

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

Performances as comic vocalist

The Rickards Combination

This name is given to an act consisting of "The Flying Trapeze, Miraculous Dives, Daring Flights" presented by the "Great Rickards", Lottie D'Aste, Katrine Angellian and Frank Angellian, presented on 27 October 1877 in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, as an after performance to Waiting for the Verdict, or Falsely Accused (Hazlewood) and a ballad by Miss Wynne.


Sources

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 1923. (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: pp.353, 362, 366, 394

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