Harry Rickards

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

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

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 (

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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