Juvenile companies

[Skinner]

If you check my data base on Alberta Theatre (Home.uleth.ca/sfa-apc/)
you'll find that Pollard's Juvenile Opera Co. visited Southern Alberta
on a number of occasions.

Ches Skinner, University of Lethbridge

Peter Freund wrote:

> I am seeking information on tours by the Pollard Liliputian Opera
> Company
> to Asia, the Pacific, Canada, and the United States, between 1880 and
> WW1.
>
> They were an Australian-based company operating out of Melbourne, and
> broke
> up after 1910, after a tour broke up in scandal, in India, with
> allegations
> of cruelty and sexual abuse. I wrote a research paper on that tour
> some
> years ago, and have now been contacted by someone keen on writing a
> full
> history of the company.
>
> Does anyone know of dates of tours, reviews of performances, or other
> references to the company?
>
> Peter Freund
> Her Majesty's Theatre, Ballarat
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