Tod Slaughter

AMaria Marten
Bpart 4

Label: Regal
Catalogue number: 612
Genre: Personalities (Prs)
Format: 78rpm shellac disc, 10 inch unless noted
Reference: #12566

Tod Slaughter, a celebrated actor of Victorian melodrama, performing an excerpt from Maria Marten on Regal.

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