New-York tribune., 1894-04-20
MR.. DALY's NETWORK CAREER.
A MANAGER FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARs-wHAT
MISS REHAN HAS DONE.

A MANAGER FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARs-WIAT
MISS REHAN HAS DONE.
However great Augustln Days success In Lon
don has been. 1t has al been earned. No manager
ever strove industriously or more conscien-
ousy 10 merit the approval and gratitude OF lovers
of dramatic art than he He has won public ap-
piause in what is practically the only way that It
can be won-by laborng primarily for something
Else His efforts have been first OF al directed TO
the finishing and perfecting OF his work Itself. and
this insured for 1t the that it has enjoyed
Other American actors than those of MI Days
company have gone to England and have gained
abundant appreciation Edwin Booth, Joseph JEFF
ferson and Miss Mary Anderson have all found
favor there. but OF them has oeen greeted
with more marked expressions Of approval and
appreciation than Miss Ada Rehan and the other
members OF the DAILY organization.
Mr.. Days theatrical career in New-York was
indeed a guarantee of his success in London, or
wherever he should seriously try his fortune. He
was born North Carolina, and his first experience
In NewYork was as newspaper man and not as
a manager. He the dramatic editor of two or
three NewYork papers successfully, and then he
found his way into the work in which he was best
qualified TO make This year Is his twenty
fifth of theatrical management and the fifteenth Of
his present company. as we'll OF the present
New-YOrk theatre He began in the Fifth Avenue
Theatre where the Madison Square Theatre now
stands. in Twenty-fourth-st. This was burned on
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Avenue Theatre in Broadway. opposite Waverley
Place From here he moved 70 the present Fifth
Avenue Theatre a; Broadway and Twenty-elghth-st
In this period his company included such actors
as Miss Clara Morris Miss Fanny Davenport
Charles Fisher. William Davldge. Mrs. Gilbert and
Miss Sarah Jewett. lie managed the Olympic
Theatre for a few months. and 1t was there that
Miss Ada Rehan first appeared in the company.
Miss Rehan had made her first attempts on the
stage with Bernard Macauley's company. in LOUIS
Vile She first attracted marked attention when
Mr.. and Mrs. W. j. Florence came TO the theatre
and gave The Mighty Dollar" in which she played
Libby Dear The Forences wanted her TO go with
them and continue TO play the part, but she declined
the offer A little later she played in Albany under
the management OF John Albaugh. and 1t was there
that she first attracted Mr.. Days attention. she
was then OF course. comparatively inexperienced,
and she began with small parts in Mr.. Daly's COM
pany gradually making her way TO the position
which she occupies.
Among the parts which Miss Rehan has played in
the last few years Valentine Osprey. in The
Railroad OF Love; Jo in The Lottery of Love;
Xantlppe. in The wife Of Socrates Tilbqrnia, in
Sense; Oriana, in THE Inconstant"; Kate Verify;
Match, Katherine in The tanning of the shrew';
Audrey oilypnant IN Samson San ana RSah
Eight; Tryphena Magillicuddy, in The Golden
Widow: Etna. in The Great Unknown; Rosa
Would and She wouldn't; Peggy, in The Country
Girl: Dina Faudee. in "A Priceless Paragon
Mile Rose. in The Prayer; Helena, in "A Md
summer Nights Dream Miss Hoyden. in Miss
Hoydens Husband; Nancy Brasher, In Nancy
& CO.; Evira Honiton. In New Lamps for
Old: Baroness Vera Bouranen, in The
Last Word; Lady Teazie in THE School for Scan-
day: PierrOt in THE Prodigal Son; the Princess
OF France, in Loves Labors Lost; Aprila Dy-
mond. in Love in Tandem Maid Marian, in The
Foresters'. Rena Primrose In Little Miss Million
Juno Jessamne in a Test Case" Julia. in The
Hunchback". Mockwood. in The Knave'; Letitia
Hardy. in The Bellies Stratagem. and Viola. in
Twelfth Night"
Mr. DAILY opened his playhouse in London. on
Tuesday evening. June q. 1893 with The Tanning
Of the Shrew." in which Miss Rehan and Mr.. Days
company had already appeared at the Gaety Thea
ire in 1855 and the Lyceum Theatre, in 1890 a
great and fashionable audience filled every part OF
the house. and in the boxes and stalls were many
notable people. Miss Rehan had an enthusiastic
reception on her temperance In the part Of
Katharine. and Mrs, Gilbert and Mr. Lewis were
welcomed as old and cherished friends. Owing 10
the limited term of the opening season OF the new
theatre Mr.. DAILY decided to withdraw THE Tanning
OF the Shrew" af.er Its fourteenth representation,
in order present 10 the public his own arrange
nent OF Sheridan KnOwless THE Hunchback,"
Miss Rehan appearing for the first time in London
as Julia. The Hunchback was replaced by
Love in Tandem" a comedy adapted from the
French by Mr. DAILY, which ran to the close OF the
season. Miss Rehan spent her vacation among the
Cumberland and WestmOreland lakes. On Monday
evening September IS, Mr. DAILY opened his
70 regular autumn and winter