Pauline Rita
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Pauline Rita, born Margaret Glenister, was an English soprano and actress. During her early career, she was best known for her performances in operettas and comic operas at the Opera Comique and was a
Pauline Rita as a young woman
Henry Compton (actor)
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Henry Compton was an English actor best known for his Shakespearean comic roles.
Pauline Rita
…Plaintiff in Trial by Jury on tour with Carte's Opera Bouffe Company (with Carte himself as musical director). In 1877, at a benefit performance for Henry Compton, described by The Era as "undeniably the greatest event known in the annals of the Stage", Rita played the Plaintiff in a star-studded performance of…
Henry Compton
Drawing of Compton c. 1850
Compton in later years