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John Johnstone Wallack was born in New York City so near midnight on December 31, 1819, that the exact date was in question. He was christened John Johnstone Wallack.
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Col. "For the regiment", of course. You don't suppose they'd send me without the regiment, do you? Eng. No, sir but Col. But, but what? Eng. Might I ask where we are going 1Cot. To be sure, thats the best of the tidings. To Algiers! Algiers, my boy !think of that! A ha! theres your other epaulette in perspective for ye. Eng. A kide. Ob, Blanche, how shall I tell you this! Col. Eh, whats that about Blanche? Eng. Oh, I was merely remarking that the parting from you will boa sad day for Miss Blanche. Col. Why, yes. I do Hatter myself that my little niece is fond of me, and will feel my absence but Ive a plan with regard to her 5and, as I always consider every ones convenience, 1think you'll say when you hear it, that Ive chalked out a very happy existence for her. Eng. A side. A plan with regard to Blanche, This will be worth hear; ngi Cut. By the by, Eugene, what do you think of my English conneetiun, Mrs. Mac Shake? Eng. A dignified sort of person, sir. Col. Yes, she is that certainly. Eng. And uncommonly fund of you, sir Col. Dye think so 1A side. He sees it, I knew I was right. I say Eugene, shes a widow, you know. Eng. Yes, sir so Ive understood. Col. Yes and when a widow invites herself to stay a week or two, and then makes it a month or two installing herself as one of the family in the meanwhile, and sticking to you lilte a leech why then, Eugene, then Eng. What, sir? Col. Oh, nothing only I'm devilsh glad were going to Algiers thats all. Where s Leon? Eng. Louis informed me that he has been out with his gun two hours ago, sir. Col. Glad of it. The more he sticks to rural sports, and the less he thinks of the army, the better I like it. Somebody must stay at home and take care of the estate. Every French family should have at least one soldier in it.
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Excerpt from Memories of Fifty Years William Wallack and Elizabeth Field Granger, his wife, had four children who left their marks upon the British and the American stage - Hen ry, James William, Mary and Elizabeth. Mary Wallack - Mrs. Stanley - Mrs. Hill - made her American début at the Chatham Theatre, New York, in June, 1827. She remained there for a season or two, retired into private life, and died in New Orleans in 1834. Elizabeth Wallack Mrs. Pincott - never came to this country. She was the mother Of Mrs. Alfred Wigan. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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John Johnstone Wallack was born in New York City so near midnight on December 31, 1819, that the exact date was in question. He was christened John Johnstone Wallack.
His early education was obtained in private schools in England.
At fifteen, at a school at Brighton, he played his first dramatic part, that of Rolla in Pizarro, and did well until he spoiled the evening by making his death-fall so close to the footlights that the curtain came down across him, whereupon his fellow-actors dragged him under it by the legs, while the audience roared with laughter. "I hesitated long, " says he, "before I made up my mind to become an actor". His first professional appearance was therefore delayed until he was nearly twenty, when he played Angelo in Willis' play, Tortesa the Usurer, with his father in the English provinces. Resolved not to lean on his father's name, he was billed as "Allan Field. " A year later he played with his uncle Henry at Rochester, near London, under the name of John Lester. For a time he was a member of the Theatre Royal company, Dublin, and in 1844 stage manager and actor at the Theatre Royal, Southampton. In 1845 at the Queen's Theatre, Manchester, he played Benedick to the Beatrice of the beautiful Helen Faucit, and Mercutio to the Romeo of Charlotte Cushman. On the latter's high recommendation he was engaged for the Haymarket, London, but through unfortunate circumstances did not make a very good impression. An offer of £8 a week in 1847 took him to America, where he made his first appearance at the Broadway Theatre, New York, on September 27 as Sir Charles Coldstream in Used Up, a farce. During that season (under the name of John Wallack Lester) he handled such parts as Captain Absolute, Mercutio, Sir Frederick Blount in Bulwer-Lytton's Money, and Osric in Hamlet. At the Chatham Theatre in July 1848 he made a sensation as Don César de Bazan; at the Broadway in August he played Cassio to Edwin Forrest's Othello, and in December won another success as Edmond Dantès in The Count of Monte Cristo. During 1849 Wallack presented two of his own plays, The Three Guardsmen, with himself as d'Artagnan and his cousin James William as Athos, and The Four Musketeers, or Ten Years After, both winning great popular acclaim. In September 1850 he entered Burton's company at the Chambers Street Theatre, where he was noted for his Sir Andrew Aguecheek and Charles Surface. When his father took over Brougham's Lyceum in September 1852, Lester was stage manager. Here his numerous parts, mostly comic or romantic, included those of Claude Melnotte, Wildrake, Bassanio, Don Pedro, Orlando, Sir Benjamin Backbite, and Captain Absolute. He also appeared in his own plays, as De Rameau in Two to One (1854), Peveril in First Impressions (1856), Leon Delmar in The Veteran (when, as C. H. Haswell says in his Reminiscences of an Octogenarian, 1896, the sacrifice of Lester's beautiful whiskers for this part "excited general lamentation among the young womanhood of the city"), Manuel in The Romance of a Poor Young Man, and Wyndham Otis in Central Park (1861). The Wallack company included among other famous actors Laura Keene, John Brougham, E. A. Sothern, Henry Placide, and George Holland. When the new Wallack's Theatre was opened at Broadway and Thirteenth Street in 1861, it was Lester who was the real manager. There he appeared for the first time as Lester Wallack and played many new parts: Elliott Grey in his own play, Rosedale (1863), Hugh Chalcote in Ours, Henry Beauclerc in Diplomacy (1878), and Prosper Couramont in A Scrap of Paper (1879). Many famous names are found in the company from time to time - the younger James W. Wallack, John Gibbs Gilbert, Edwin L. Davenport, Charles Fisher, and Charles J. Mathews, for examples. This house closed in april 1881, and the new Wallack Theatre at Broadway and Thirtieth Street was opened on Jan. 4, 1882. Wallack managed it until 1887, when he retired. On May 21, 1888, one of the most famous of all theatrical benefits was given for him; Hamlet was played with Edwin Booth in the lead, Lawrence Barrett as the Ghost, Joseph Jefferson and William J. Florence as the gravediggers, Helena Modjeska as Ophelia, Gertrude Kellogg as the Queen, Rose Coghlan as the Player Queen, and other well-known players in the supporting parts. Wallack died less than four months later at his home near Stamford, Connecticut. His reminiscences, Memories of Fifty Years, were published in 1889.
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He was secretly married to Emily Mary Millais, sister of Sir John Millais, the artist.