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Billy Cass Revue Company Billy Cass Revue Company i(A143877 works by) (Organisation) assertion (a.k.a. Billy Cass Revue Company; Purple Jesters Musical Comedy Company; Cass and Cass Company; Skeeta Cass Revue Company)
Born: Established: ca. 1922 ; Died: Ceased: ca. 1930-1939
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Billy Cass operated his own troupes around Australia fairly consistently between the early 1920s and the late 1930s/early 1940s. These tours were generally undertaken between solo engagements with other entrepreneurs (notably Stanley McKay, Harry Clay and Alf Coleman). His earliest known troupe, the Purple Jesters was established in October 1922. Cass initially presented vaudeville entertainment and revusicals, later moving into musical comedies, revues and the occasional pantomime. Among the artists he engaged were his wife Ivy (aka Ivy Beaumont), Vince and Eva Courtney, Ivy Davis, Courtney Ford, Violet Elliott, and Will Miller and the Six Ramblers (chorus).

[Source: Australian Variety Theatre Archive]

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