The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-24
CAROLINA ION THE RlALTo."
Miss Angela McCaull's Success--Miss
"Odette Tyler" and Her Romance
Augustin DAILY the Prince of Managers.

fOdette Yler" and Her Romance
Augustin DAILY the Prince of Managers.
North Carolina is well represented
'On the Rialto," as the theatrical dis
trict of New York is known.
The death of Henry C. DeMille, one
of the brightest young playwrights OF
the country, just as success had come
and larger career was opening to
him, was peculiarly sad He was
North Carolinian, who went to New
York and fought his way up single
handed 1t was a hard fight against
odds, and he won. But he never lived
to enjoy his victory.
Probably the best play that came to
Raleigh last season was one of his pro-
auctions, "The Lost Paradise" which
was produced by Frohman's excellent
company.
Miss Angela McCaull has made
great hit in New York in the most sue
cessful melodrama of recent years.
Belasco's 'Heart of Maryland is the
dramatic success of the season.
And Miss McCaull, as "Nanny Nc
Nair," adds a picturesque brightness
and beauty to the play that has had
no little to do with its success. She
has received compliments enough to
turn any young woman's head.
The Metropolitan Magazine for jan
uary, just now issued, contains a full
page portrait of Miss McCaull in her
role of Nanny McNair," and a very
pretty picture she makes in her cute
muslin bonnet, her glossy hair fall
ing in curls over her shoulders.
Miss McCaull is a daughter of the
late Col. John A. McCaull, and inherits
histrionic talent Her home is in
Greensboro, and her many North Car
Dina friends are proud of her success.
Miss Winifred McCaull, her sister,
was last season with Richard Mans
field, and made quite success in that
delightful play, ''Arms and the Man"
For a month or two nearly all the
magazines that conduct dramatic de-
partments have contained excellent
portraits of Odette Tyler, who fur
nishes the life and flavor in that merry
play, ''The Gay Parisians."
Miss Tyler is North Carolina girl,
native of Hillsboro. Her father was
General Kirkland, an ardent Confed-
crate and a brave soldier. After the
war he met with reverses and moved
to the metropolis. For some years he
has held position in the New York
post-office. "Odette Tyler" is only q
stage name. for in real life she is Miss
Elizabeth Kirkland. She comes of as
good old Southern stock as the land
holds.
Miss Kirlllands talent has been re-
coenized from the time she first stood
before the footlights, and her beauty
y Itf4ln fr hay
Howard Gould, the younger son OF
the multi-millionaire, saw Odette Ty-
Ter and fell desperately in love with
her. When the contamination OF their
happiness was not far away, George
Gould and the trustees of the estate,
who have about as much sentiment as
a pumpkin, stepped in and separated
them.
And the romance of the pretty ac-
tress and the multi-millionaire was
ended
That's the story the newspapers all
told, and when you see it in the pa
pers it's so"
Not many people know that the
greatest theatrical manager the New
World has produced first saw the light
in North Carolina. Augustin DAILY is
a native Of this State, and has many
relatives living in Eastern North Caro-
lima to-day.
Mr.. DAILY is the head and front of the
drama in this country. His New York
theatre is regarded as the temple OF
true histrionic art, the one place III
America that has not been desecrated
by the fiimsy and the vulgar produc-
tions that have sometimes disgraced
the American stage.
And in London he is held in as high
regard as in New York.
On both sides of the Atlantic his
name stands for the highest type Of
the drama.