Author: Boston Theatre
Title: Theater Playbill: Boston Theatre, Mr J.H. Booth, Lessee and Manager. Saturday, April 8th, 1871. Two Performances, Last Appearance of Mr. Fechter and Miss Leclercq... [in] Ruy Blas... [and] Plot and Passion...
Description: Boston, F.A. Searle, 1871. Unbound. Broadside, 1 p. Good condition The Boston Theatre, Washington Street was first built in 1854 and operated as a theater until 1925. Carlotta Leclercq (1838–1893) was a British actress, one of the children of Charles Clark (1797–1861) and his wife, Margaret, née Burnet. Clark, a pantomimist and ballet master, who performed under the stage name of Charles Leclercq. All of her brothers and sisters were actors: Rose, Louise, Charles Jr. Arthur and Pier Charles Albert Fechter (1824 –1879) was an Anglo-French actor who moved to the U.S. in 1870 after a sucessful London career in the 1860's.

Keywords: Theater Playbills; Boston Theaters; Carlotta Leclercq ;Charles Albert Fechter


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