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unusual facts about Sir William Don, 7th Baronet



Sir William Don, 7th Baronet

At this period he had taken to playing female characters in burlesques, and he appeared at the Royal Theatre, Melbourne, in Valentine and Orson and in a travestie in The Colleen Bawn called "Eily O'Connor".

She was for a short period lessee of the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, and assisted at the opening of the Gaiety Theatre, Edinburgh.

Nathaniel Parker Willis, who shortly afterwards saw him in the character of Sir Charles Coldstream in the comedy of Used Up, gives a very favourable opinion of his acting in the character of a gentleman.


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