Accession No. TRI.2018.0120: Ohio State University Department of Theatre, 2017 June
[identification of item], Scrapbook on Charlotte Leslay, SPEC.TRI.SCRAPBOOK.0176, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute, Ohio State University
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Processed by: Courtney Bishop, 2018 December; finding aid written by: Courtney Bishop, 2018 December.
Charlotte Leslay, who also went by the names Charlotte Leslie, Charlotte Erlanger, and Charlotte Fixel, was a theatrical actress in New York. Leslay worked on musicals and operettas at various theatres on Broadway. In 1930, she went to court to prove she had a common law marriage to Abraham Lincoln Erlanger in order to receive part of his estate.
The Scrapbook on Charlotte Leslay contains a scrapbook with clippings of reviews of theatrical performances of Charlotte Leslay. Also in the scrapbook are programs and photographs, including one signed Charlotte Erlanger. The creator of the scrapbook is unknown. Materials are dated 1901-1914, 1943, 1951.