The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-17

u 70 scrutiny that in some cases was
n ana IN many other cases insult.
-. TOT the hrst few years Fanny Dayen-
20; VINO was then in the hey-day of youth
uoeauty. was the despot of the Fifth
ue tneater. If younger female
:. OF the company began to increase
.e,snt and beauty she was likely to be
.apluiy frozen out, so that in the early
seventies" and in the later it was the talk
OF the New York papers.
among the young women who dawned
Jn the Fifth avenue stage was a girl from
-, via Baltimore named Ada Rehan.
one was born Ada Crehan, and she had
s~o sisters In the profession already, who
were known as Mrs. Oliver Doud Byron
ana MISS Hattie Russell (Langtry's lead
ing iady). respectively. It is difficult 20
say way Miss Rehan's first successes were
countenanced under the existing regime.
out sumce to say, one day there was an
announcement In one of the dramatic
WeeKiies that Miss Fanny Davenport was
ABOUT 70 leave on a venture of her own.
Inc reasons given were most trivial. and
Al Is an odd incident in the story that all
the reasons for Mr.. Days breaks with his
people nave been on the most pettv
grounds
George Drew Barrymore YVES in the
DAILY company at that time and remem-
pers all about it, and now she calls tn
mino that Ada Rehan has Just been left
out OF the cast OF Daly's new play, "The
Caoinet Minister" the part she desired be-
lnggiven TO Miss Prince. who is Young
ano beautiful and stage-stricken to an an.
usual extent.
Mrs. Barrymore does not care TO saw
huch ABOUT the matter because Ada Rehan
mas agreed TO join forces next season with
her brother John Drew under the man
agement OF Frohman, who is Days New
York rival. But other New York PLAYERS
are not so guarded. They do not like
Daiy well enough 10 conceal the truth for
ms dement, Daily is not loyable man in
any particular. He once gave bis wife
ana q lady friend the alternative of leay-
ing the theater or standing up
he could self sf'd the seat, because ahss
occupied during the performance for s3
He drove Edith Kingdom and Virginia
Dreher out of the profession because the
Publlc and press divided Ada Rehan's
honors with them, and he has a set of
rules they do not like. On that head q
Leading member of the company now at
the Baldwin said:
Miss Rehan has had her wav for a
dozen years in Days just as if she were a
suitana or an empress. First 'Angy'
DAILY had to let Edith Kingdom go. and
next Virginia Dreher. The first married
George Gould ana the second married a
rich Engllshman named PostIethwaite.
Both ladies had to leave because thew
could not stand the DAILY tyranny. They
found happy homes, and yet they never
would have accepted them were it not for
dlsagreeable circumstances.
Take for instance Otis Skinner, who
was exceedingly popular and clever He
happened to make a hit in the first Shake
spearean revival that Daily attempted. 1t
was the Tanning of the Shrew.' At once
ne had row with the management, and
the reason given in the papers was absurd,
namely, that Daily was provoked at Skin
ner having aided brother in writing a
play produced elsewhere
Frederick Bond, an excellent .jeune
premier next fell in disgrace in play
which DAILY had stolen from the French.
Wilton Lackaye made sort of debut in
Roger la Honte' at Niblo's. This was the
first melodrama that Daily had attempted
since Under the Gaslight, and Lackaye
was the hit of this special performance,
contrasting most favorably with the star
of the piece. Daily transferred him at
once to the regular stock company, and
there he won most favorable criticisms
where other people were sighted. This
was a blow to his future appearance at
Days, and he left within single week.
Then there was an explosion, and the Sun.
which was his champion, came out with
bitter tales regarding Miss Rehan's con-
duct in the entire affair.
1.-THE next trouble in Mr.. Days Sun
day-Schoop was the John Drew row,
whic was as mysterious as the the