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
Smithson in The Arcadians, 1909
The Cingalee
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The Cingalee or Sunny Ceylon is an Edwardian musical comedy in two acts by James T. Tanner, with music by Lionel Monckton, lyrics by Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank, and additional material by Paul Ru
Florence Smithson
…opera company in La fille du régiment, she was spotted by the impresario Robert Courtneidge. Under his management she toured in 1904–05 as Nanoya in The Cingalee and Chandra Nil in The Blue Moon. In August 1905, she made her first appearance in the West End repeating her role in The Blue Moon and making an…
Wright (Chambhuddy) and Leigh (Peggy)
A scene from Act I of The Cingalee, Seattle, 1907
Freddy Rowan in a production at the Regina Theatre, Saskatchewan (1925)