Karl Reck

(18**-9**). Hotelier and theatre manager. A German immigrant who owned the South African Hotel and Tavern on Church Square in Pretoria, in which he built a theatre in 1889?, named The President Theatre, the only theatre in the city for a while. In 1903 he renamed it The Empress Theatre. ****

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