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Wallace married
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Stevenson "Broncho" Wallace, a painter, and Catherine Mary Ann, nÊe Scott. His father toured in minstrel shows, and George junior appeared at age three in a Sydney pantomime. He was in his parents' song-and-dance act until they divorced. He later
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