W. S. Penley
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William Sydney Penley was an English actor, singer and comedian who had an early success in the small role of the Foreman in Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury. He later achieved wider fame as produ
Penley as Spalding in The Private Secretary, 1884
Penley caricatured by Spy in Vanity Fair, 1893
Penley in Charley's Aunt, 1892
The Zoo
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The Zoo is a one-act comic opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by B. C. Stephenson, writing under the pen name of Bolton Rowe. It premiered on 5 June 1875 at the St James's Theatre in
W. S. Penley
…salesman; they had three sons and three daughters. In 1879, at the Royalty, Penley played Grinder in a revival of B. C. Stephenson and Arthur Sullivan's The Zoo in a bill in which he also played the wicked Jellicoe in Crutch and Toothpick by George R Sims. He then rejoined D'Oyly Carte, playing Sir Joseph Porter…
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