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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

John Lester Wallack (1820–1888)

Wallack, John Lester. An American actor and manager, son of James William Wallack, the actor and manager; born in New York, Jan. 1, 1820; died in Stamford, CT, Sept. 6, 1888. He conducted Wallack’s Theatre, New York City, for twenty-four years. He wrote the plays ‘The Veteran’ and ‘Rosedale.’ His autobiography, ‘Memoirs of Fifty Years,’ was published the year after his death.