Robert Sparrow Smythe

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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 the "serio-comic vocalist" Florence Calzado‎‎, 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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