Juvenile companies

[Peter Freund]

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