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JAMES WILLIAM WALLACK (c. 1794-1864)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 279 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES See also:WILLIAM See also:WALLACK (c. 1794-1864)  , Anglo-See also:American actor and manager, was See also:born in See also:London, his parents being actors . He made his firsts See also:stage See also:appearance at See also:Drury See also:Lane in 1807 . After three years in See also:Dublin he was again at Drury Lane until he went to See also:America in 1818 . He settled in New See also:York permanently in 1852, the first See also:Wallack's See also:theatre being an old one renamed at the corner of See also:Broome See also:Street and Broad-way . The second, at 13th Street and Broadway, he built him-self . Wallack was an actor of the old school . See also:Thackeray praises his Shylock, See also:Joseph See also:Jefferson his See also:Don See also:Caesar de Bazan . He married the daughter (d . 1851) of See also:John See also:Henry See also:Johnstone (1749-1828), a popular See also:tenor and stage Irishman . Their son, JOHN LESTER WALLACH (182o-1888), was born in New York on the 1st of See also:January 182o . At one See also:time in the See also:English See also:army, then on the Dublin and London stage, he made his first stage appearance in New York in 1847 under the name of John Lester as See also:Sir See also:Charles See also:Coldstream, in See also:Boucicault's See also:adaptation of Used Up . He was manager, using the name Wallack, of the second Wallack's theatre from 1861, and in 1882 he opened the third at 3oth Street and Broadway .

His greatest successes were as Charles See also:

Surface, as Benedick, and especially as Elliot See also:Grey in his own See also:play Rosedale, and similar See also:light See also:comedy and romantic parts, for which his fascinating See also:manners and handsome See also:person well fitted him . He married a See also:sister (d . 1909) of Sir John See also:Millais . He wrote his own Memories of Fifty Years .

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