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[[Robert Sparrow Smythe]] (19**-19**)
 
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Also known as '''[[Robert Smythe]]'''
 
   
 
   
 
== Biography ==
 
== Biography ==
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==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
 
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He and his wife wife, the soprano [[Amelia Bailey]], joined forces with violinist [[Horace Poussard]] and  and the latter's wife, to found the [[Poussard-Bailey Opera Company]], with which  they undertook  a 4-year tour of India and South Africa, giving more than 300 performances.
  
  

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Robert Sparrow Smythe (19**-19**)

Also known as Robert Smythe

Biography

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

He and his wife wife, the soprano Amelia Bailey, joined forces with violinist Horace Poussard and and the latter's wife, to found the Poussard-Bailey Opera Company, with which they undertook a 4-year tour of India and South Africa, giving more than 300 performances.


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.

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