The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-08-26

Ut prosperity and future greatness
- Seattle"
~ speaker, q mild hammered gentle
- whose erect carriage. clear-cut fea-
- ana iron-gray moustaehe, suggest
y .pne retired military officer. sat smok-
g N after-dinncr cigar in the lobby Of
= Occidental hotel last evening. He was
Vuliam Nannary. manager of the Daley
~npany, now playing two weeks en-
l.rsmeut at the Third Avenue theater,
- the father Of May Nannary, the COM
nay's star.
SYour long experience in the theatre
~ world must have witnessed some radi-
II changss In the profession" remarked
fS4ssd
indeed. yes. My early days were in
- eood old times Of the stock. Way
~ in the eos l was the owner OF the
4 John. ~ H., opera house. the Acad-
~ Of Music Mt Montreal and the Aead-
|fmy 81 Music mt Halifax, and ! managed
& nm a. n circuit. 1t Is curious. even TO
- 10 recall as members OF my stock,
/ N and women who long since have
|Snehteved fame and fortune, and some of
ukom. alas have passed over to the
epst majority and the old manager
fktafhed q sigh.
what noted artists can you recall AZ
IN ordinary stock actors?'
well. there was II. l.. Davenport.
Charles w. Couldock. Charles Dillon.
4 csfIoste lie Cleraue, the latter coming to
b 1nericA with the great Fechter. Then
/ mere was Lucille Western, the greatest
4 Nancy Sykes the world has ever seen.
william r.. Sheridan. the tragedian. whom
VI isfsr brought to the Pacific coast, and
whose ashes now rest In far-on Austria
IN; Joe Grsmer. 30 well known 10
Western playgoers, was also n member
~ one OF my stock companies
q an retrospect l recall the face and hg-
Ntre OF young man whom | brought
ever from New York TO play my juvenile
fxht was disappointed In his work.
md We parted company. He Ia today
that charming artist. Henry Miller.
There IL a curious coinoident In this con-
p@ction. One OF my most intimate
friends OF that period was Timothy War
|rrn Anglin. then tho editor OF local 81.
|John paper, and a power In politics. be-
|lnr speaker OF the Canadian house OF
'commons. His daughter, Margaret An
'xin. ~ today Henry Milier's talented
leading woman"
what Is your view regarding the pro-
srear Of tho drama. as contrasted with
The advancement OF tho other profess
eionsy''
= don't think II can marx progress' IN
The old days We haa better plays anu
better actors than today IN ,hs Jays
~ the old stock actors were tra,hea men
and women, rising step by step from SUI
pera to leading men and women. How
few Hamlets and other important figures
We have today. and yet thirty years ago
the stock company would be an exception
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askes It's Demands whieh the managerial
world promptly nils
what do sou predict Tor the futuref
On. l don't know" and Mr.. Nannary
rave quiet little laugh the wheel re-
selves This taste will die out. the people
VIZ live; the good old stock DAYS viii once
more be- with us. and tho immortal Will
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