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* WALLACE. 265 WALLENSTEIIT. of France, leaving anoUier opera, Estrella, nearly completed. WALLACHIA, wol-lfi'kia. A fdrnicr prin- cipiility (if Kmope, now forming the southwestern jjart uf Kumania (q.v.). It is bounded by the Transylvanian .Mps, iloidavia (on the north- east), and the Danube, and is divided by the Aluta, a tributary of the Danube, into Great Wallaehia on the east and Little Wallaehia on the west (Map: Balkan Peninsula, E 2). Total area, 20,800 square miles. Population, estimated at 4,000,000. The ]irincipal city is Bucharest. See Rumania. WALLACES, wul'laks. See Rumania; Ru- M.MAN La.NGUAGE and l.ITEKATUKE. WALLACK, .Tames Wilmam ( 1705?-1804) . A well-kuown actor and manager; born in Lon- don. He was of a theatrical family and when quite young became a member of the company at Drury Lane, supporting Klliston, Kdmiuid Kean, and others. In 1S18 he made his iirst ap- pearance in the United States as Alacbeth at the Park Theatre, New York, and for a numlier of years he divided )iis time Ijetween England and America. During several years he was stage manager at Drury Lane. In 1852, having finally settled in the United >States, he took control of the first theatre known as Wallack's, at Broad- way and Broome Street, Xew York. In 1861 he built the second Wallack's Theatre, at Broadway and Thirteenth Street, of which his son John Lester Wallack (q.v.) became the manager. As an aetor Wallack was at his best in comedy and in romantic parts, such as Rolla in Fizarro and Don Ca'sar de Bazan. Consult: A .S'/.-c/c/i of the Life of Jumrs WilH(i>n Wallack, Late Actor and Manager (New York, 1805) ; Lester Wallack, Memories of Fifty Years (New York, 1889) ; Russell, Representative Actors (London, u. d. ). WALLACK, John Lestek (1820-88). An American actor, the son of .James William Wal- lack. His real name was John Johnstone Wal- lack. He was educated in England for the British Army. After having left the army for the theatre, he came to America in 1847, making his first appearance as Sir Charles Coldstream in Used Vp. In 1852 he became stage manager at his father's theatre. In 1882 he opened the third and last A'alIaek's Theatre, at Broadway and Thirtieth Street. New York, which he conducted with great liberality and much artistic success, though the financial results were less satisfac- tory. He himself was a very popular actor, especially in comedy. His Charles Surface and his Benedick were admimble. and in several melodramatic roles he was extremely successful. He w'as the author of several plays, of which Rosedale is best known. He died at Stamford, Conn. Consult his Memories of Fifty Years (New York, 1889) : McKay and Wingate, Fa- mous American Actors of To-Day (New York, 1890), WAL'LAROO' (.ustralian name). A well- known kangaroo ( ^[acroplls rohtistus) of Queens- land and southward, which is of large size and robust form, and has long, thick, smoky gray fur. See Plate of Kangarocs. WALLASEY, wol'lft-sA. A manufacturing town in Cheshire, England, on the west bank of the Mersey estuary, four miles west of Liverpool (.Map: England, C: 3). It is distinguished for its municipal activity and its public works. It owns the water-works, the gas and electric- lighting plants, and the street railwaj'S. A iKilablc feature is the Wallasey embankment, which prevents tlic inroads of the sea on the peninsula. Population, in 1891, 3.3.229; in 1901, 0.3.380. WALLA WALLA, wol'la-wol'la (rushing water, or many waters). A tribe of Shahaptian stock (q.v.) formerly occupying the territory about the river of the same name and the ad- jacent banks of the Colundiia, in Wnsliington and Oregon, and since 1855 associated with the Cayuse and Umatilla >ipon the Umatilla Ueservation, Oregon. They were visited by Lewis and Clark in 1804 and were Christianized by .Jesuit mis- sionaries about forty years later. They lived originally by fish, roots, and game, but are now fairly pros])erous farmers and stock-raisers, with a population of 525. WAL'LA WAL'LA. The c,iuiity>eat of Walla Walla County, Wash., about 200 miles smith by west of Spokane: on -Mill Creek, and on ■ the Northern Pacific Railroad and the line of the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company (Map: Washington, G 3). It is the seat of Whitman College, opened in 1800; Saint Paul's Episcopal School; Saint Vincent's 'Academy; Saint Patrick's Catliolic Scliool : and De La Salle Institute. Walla Walla College, a .Seventh- Day Adventist institution, is at College Place, 21/2 miles to the west. Other prominent fea- tures are the State Penitentiary, city hall, county court-house. Saint Mary's and the New Walla Walla hospitals, and the public library. There are also the military post of the Sixth United States Cavalry, Fort' Walla Walla (q.v.), and a United States A'eather Bureau office. The city is in a region noted for its large production ol wheat, barley, and fruit. There are manufactures of flour, threshing machines, leather, cigars, beer, sashes, doors, blinds, etc. Under the "charter of 1884 the government is vested in a mayor, chosen annually, and a unicameral council. The water- works are owned and operated by the municipal- ity. A military post was established here in 1856 and the settlement which grew up about it was at first called Steptoe City. In 1808 it was char- tered under the present name. Population, in 1890, 4709; in 1900, 10,049. WALL-CREEPER. The Alpine wall-creeper (Tichodroma miiraria) is a beautiful little bird of the creeper family (Certhiidic), which is found from the European Al.ps along the mountain ranges to the Himalaya. During the summer months it makes its home among precipitous rocks, fluttering about the faces of difls with queer butterfly movements, and. darting hither and thither like a humming-bird. Its resemblance to the latter is enhanced by the very long, straight, slender bill, with which it probes the crevices and cracks of the rocks in search of the spiders and flies upon which it lives. Its colors are gay. but its song is insignificant. See illus- tlatinn (111 I'latc of CREEPER. WALLENSTEIN, val'en-stm (originallv Wai.u- and Wai.de.x.steixI, Albert Eu-sebius Wenzel vo., Duke of Friedland, Sagan,and Meck- lenburg (15S3-1G34). .An Imperialist general in the Thirty Years' War. He was the third son of a