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DALY, AUGUSTIN (1838-1899)

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DALY, AUGUSTIN (1838-1899) , See also:American theatrical manager and playwright, was See also:born in See also:Plymouth, See also:North Carolina, on the loth of See also:July 1838. He was dramatic critic for several New See also:York papers from 1859, and he adapted or wrote a number of plays, Under the Gaslight (1867) being his first success. In 1869 he was the manager of the Fifth See also:Avenue See also:theatre, and in 1879 he built and opened Daly's theatre in New York, and, in 1893, Daly's theatre in See also:London. At the former he gathered a See also:company of players, headed by See also:Miss Ada See also:Rehan, which made for it a high reputation, and for them he adapted plays from See also:foreign See also:sources, and revived Shakespearean comedies in a manner before unknown in See also:America. He took his entire company on tour, visiting See also:England, See also:Germany and See also:France, and some of the best actors on the American See also:stage have owed their training and first successes to him. Among these were See also:Clara See also:Morris, Sara See also:Jewett, See also:John See also:Drew, Fanny See also:Davenport, See also:Maude See also:Adams, Mrs See also:Gilbert and many others. ' Daly was a See also:great See also:book-See also:lover, and his valuable Iibrary was dispersed by See also:auction after his See also:death, which occurred in See also:Paris on the 7th of See also:June 1899. Besides plays, See also:original and adapted, he wrote See also:Woffington: a See also:Tribute to the Actress and the Woman (1888).

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