For the American cricket

Cricket

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er, see John Lester

John Lester

John Ashby Lester was an American cricketer, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Lester was one of the Philadelphian cricketers who played from the end of the 19th century until the outbreak of World War I...

John Lester Wallack (born John Johnstone Wallack) (January 1, 1820 New York, NY – September 6, 1888 Stamford, CT), was an American

United States

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 actor

Actor

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 and son of James William Wallack

James William Wallack

James William Wallack was an Anglo-American actor and manager, born in London, and brother of Henry John Wallack.Wallack's parents were comedians, who performed at the London minor playhouses and in the British provinces. His first appearance on the stage was as a child at the Surrey Theatre in...

.

At one time in the British Army

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, then on the Dublin and London

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 stage, he made his first stage appearance in New York in 1847 under the name of John Lester as Sir Charles Coldstream, in Boucicault

Dion Boucicault

Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot , commonly known as Dion Boucicault, was an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas. By the later part of the 19th century, Boucicault had become known on both sides of the Atlantic as one of the most successful actor-playwright-managers then in the...

's 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 30th Street and Broadway

Broadway (New York City)

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. This theatre was torn down in 1915. Among the productions staged at this theater was Margaret Mather

Margaret Mather

Margaret Mather was a Canadian actress.She was born in poverty in Tilbury, Ontario as Margaret Finlayson, daughter of John Finlayson, a farmer and mechanic, and Ann Mather...

's ill-fated production of Cymbeline

Cymbeline

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 in 1897. Another Wallack's Theatre

Wallack's Theatre

Wallack’s Theatre , located on 254 West 42nd Street in New York, United States, was opened on December 5, 1904 by Oscar Hammerstein I. Wallack’s was Hammerstein’s 8th production theatre and was originally known as the "Lew Fields'", a name that Hammerstein gave it in recognition of his favourite...

 at 254 West 42nd Street in New York was named for him in 1924.

His greatest successes were as Charles Surface, as Benedick, and especially as Elliot Grey in his own play Rosedale, and similar light comedy and romantic parts, for which his fascinating manners and handsome person well fitted him. He married a sister (d. 1909) of Sir John Millais

John Everett Millais

Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA was an English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.-Early life:...

. He wrote his own Memories of Fifty Years.

Publications

• M. J. Moses
  Montrose Jonas Moses
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  , Famous Actor-Families in America (New York, 1906)