Mr Leslie

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Mr Leslie (fl. 1860's) was a comedian in the Christy's idiom.

He claimed to have been a member of the original 1842 Broadway company led E.B. Christy and was a member of The Christy Minstrels troupe that visited Cape Town, Port Elizabeth as well as various smaller settlements in 1862, en route to Australia.

The name reappears in 1872, when he (or a similarly named Christy's performer) was apparently a member of the Harvey-Dougherty-Leslie-Braham Minstrels that played for 3 seasons in the Cape Colony (1872-1874).

Sources

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 193-194

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