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DURING
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Charles Fechter
the season of 1869-70
Charles Fechter pla3^ed for the
first time in the United States,
appearing first in New York, and opening,
in March of the latter year, at the Bos-
ton Theatre as Hamlet. He was born in
London, in 1824, and was the son of an
Englishwoman and Jean Maria Fechter,
a sculptor, who was of German descent,
but a native of France. Notwithstanding
the mixture of his blood, Charles Fechter
was wholly French in his affiliations and
sympathies, loathed Germany and all its
ways, works, and words, and was careful to
pronounce " Fayshtair " his surname, the
first syllable of which Boston, because of
its extreme culture, persisted and persists
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