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VII
The Great Dramatic QyiNQiJENNiUM
AND THE Boston Museum
first few years of my experience
THEwere memorable for their wealth
of interest, for the splendor and
variety of their histrionic material, for the
significant changes of the lines upon which
the American theatre was to develop.
Within the half decade between 1870 and
1875, Charles Fechter, Carlotta Leclercq,
and Tommaso Salvini first appeared in this
country ; Charles James Mathews, in ad-
mirable form, revisited our stage after a
long absence ;
Charlotte Cushman, having
reestablished her primacy over all our na-
tive actresses, was playing her most cel-
ebrated parts ; Nilsson and Lucca and
Parepa-Rosa were first seen and heard here
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