Dan Rolyat
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Dan Rolyat, born Herbert Taylor, was an English actor and singer. After an apprenticeship with a touring company he was engaged by the impresarios George Edwardes and Robert Courtneidge to play comic
Rolyat with Florence Smithson in The Arcadians (1909)
Jay Laurier (right) Carrie Moore and Dan Rolyat in Tom Jones (1907)
Florence Smithson
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Florence Smithson was an English actress and singer celebrated in Edwardian musical comedy. In her early career she was an opera singer. She was spotted by the impresario Robert Courtneidge and recrui
Dan Rolyat
…unsuccessful. An all-star benefit show was organised to raise money to support him. Rolyat was twice married. His first wife was the singer and actress Florence Smithson; the marriage was dissolved, and in 1915 he married the actress Constance Worth. He died at his home in Brixton, south London, at the age of fifty-five…
Smithson in The Arcadians, 1909