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Filmed as ''Secret Service'', directed by J. Walter Ruben to a script by Bernard Schubert, and released on November 14, 1931, by RKO Pictures.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Service_(1931_film)]
  
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==

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Secret Service is an American play by W. Gilette ()[]


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Translations and adaptations

Filmed as Secret Service, directed by J. Walter Ruben to a script by Bernard Schubert, and released on November 14, 1931, by RKO Pictures.[1]

Performance history in South Africa

1898: Performed in middle of the year in South Africa by a company under the management of the Wheeler Brothers, as part of a repertoire that also included The Tree of Knowledge (Carton), A Marriage of Convenience (Dumas/Grundy) and My Friend, The Prince (McCarthy). The company included George Hippisley, Wilton Heriot, Jessie Bateman, Mabel Lane and Sallie Booth.

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 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.406

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