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| − | [[W.S. Leslie]] (fl. 1870's) was a British [[Christy's]] style singer and performer.
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| − | He was apparently attached to the St James Hall, London and may have been the same [[Mr Leslie]] who first appeared in Cape Town with [[Charles Fraser]] in three pieces during 1858, playing the lead in ''[[A Blighted Being]]'' (Taylor). ('''see [[Charles Fraser]]''').
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| − | He is most probably one of the three the co-founders of the [[Christy's]] [[troupe]] known as the [[Steele-Leslie-Taylor's Christy's Minstrels]] active in Cape Town and Port Elizabeth in 1865 and certainly a member of the touring [[Harvey-Dougherty-Leslie-Braham Minstrels]], that visited the Cape Colony for a set of three seasons, between November 1872 and the end of 1874.
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| − | == Sources ==
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| − | [[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp. 124, 251-2
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