Amy Leslie (October , â€" July , ) was an American actress, opera
singer, and drama critic who was the first wife of Frank Buck.She was
born as Lillian West in West Burlington, Iowa. She studied at the
Conservatory of Vocal Music, St Mary's Academy, Notre Dame, Indiana,
graduating in . After more study in Europe and at the Chicago
Conservatory of Music, billed as "Lillie West" she became a singer in
operettas.In , she began contributing to the Chicago Daily News,
signing her stories as Amy Leslie, and became the drama critic for the
paper. She was one of the few women drama critics of her time, the
only one in Chicago, and came to know and write of the stars of the
day. Amy Leslie retired in .While playing Fiametta in La mascotte she
was married to Harry Brown, an opera singer, who abandoned her. Their
son, Francis Albert, died of diphtheria in . After obtaining a divorce
from Harry Brown, Leslie was the mistress of Stephen Crane and lived
with him in New York in a house at West th Street. In , the -year-old
Leslie was married to -year-old Frank Buck, who was at the time a
captain of bellboys at the Virginia Hotel in Chicago, where she was
living. Buck described her as "a small woman, plump, with keenly
intelligent eyes, the most beautifully white teeth I have ever seen
and a red, laughing mouth", adding that she was "always good-natured".
In Leslie and Buck divorced.
singer, and drama critic who was the first wife of Frank Buck.She was
born as Lillian West in West Burlington, Iowa. She studied at the
Conservatory of Vocal Music, St Mary's Academy, Notre Dame, Indiana,
graduating in . After more study in Europe and at the Chicago
Conservatory of Music, billed as "Lillie West" she became a singer in
operettas.In , she began contributing to the Chicago Daily News,
signing her stories as Amy Leslie, and became the drama critic for the
paper. She was one of the few women drama critics of her time, the
only one in Chicago, and came to know and write of the stars of the
day. Amy Leslie retired in .While playing Fiametta in La mascotte she
was married to Harry Brown, an opera singer, who abandoned her. Their
son, Francis Albert, died of diphtheria in . After obtaining a divorce
from Harry Brown, Leslie was the mistress of Stephen Crane and lived
with him in New York in a house at West th Street. In , the -year-old
Leslie was married to -year-old Frank Buck, who was at the time a
captain of bellboys at the Virginia Hotel in Chicago, where she was
living. Buck described her as "a small woman, plump, with keenly
intelligent eyes, the most beautifully white teeth I have ever seen
and a red, laughing mouth", adding that she was "always good-natured".
In Leslie and Buck divorced.
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