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Issue Details: First known date: 1838... 1838 Royal Victoria Theatre : Spencer's Benefit
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An advertisement for performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, as a benefit for the actor Albert Spencer, on 28 August 1838, to include 'Shakespeare's celebrated Tragedy, entitled King Lear'; 'After which (for the first time in this Colony) ... the celebrated popular Comic Song, entitled "Jim Crow"'; and '(for the first time at this Theatre) the 'grand Eastern Spectacle, entitled Timour the Tartar'.

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