THE D'OYLY CARTE OPERA COMPANY

Amy Gordon (1878, 1892)

[Born c.1864]

Amy Gordon, real name Amy Blanche Thomas, had two known engagements with the D'Oyly Carte organization:as a chorister on tour with Carte's Comedy-Opera Company, March-August 1878, and fourteen years later as Agatha in The Vicar of Bray with D'Oyly Carte Opera Company "D," March-July 1892. She was the younger sister of the principal soprano known as "Miss Duglas Gordon," who toured with Amy in 1878.

Amy's last appearances in London were as an extra in the burlesque Guy Fawkes, Esq. (Gaiety, 1890), and in the roles of Daisy and Polly in the comedies The Lady Killer and Binks, The Downy Photographer (Strand, 1893).

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