Claim: Edgley International is a theatre and concert promotions company that started when English vaudeville brothers Eric Edgley and Clem Dawe (Eric and Clem White) were invited to New Zealand in 1920 by J&N Tait to appear in a production of Sinbad the Sailor, a fictional mariner and the hero of a story-cycle of Middle Eastern origin, whwich was a relatively late addition to the One Thousand and One Nights – they do not feature in the earliest 14th-century manuscript, and they appear as an independent cycle in 17th- and 18th-century collections.
Evidence: English vaudeville brothers Eric Edgley and Clem Dawe were invited to Australia in 1920 by J&N Tait to appear in a production of Sinbad the Sailor at King's Theatre, Melbourne.