The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-05-19
wILLIAm BRADY. MANAeFR

rams, from call boy. scene shifter hill
poster and baeksr of prize fighters t.
proprietor Of three successful play.
now running in New york C;fv one I,
philadelphia and four comDanios IN "a.
road. -" -
With plans for heatres Of MS ovr
next season in New York, Boston. Phil.
a0eiph1a and Chicago.
And only S. years old
Tnls is the story of william
crazy better known to hundreds az
thousands, especially the sports" al
11ll{ BRADY, and literally from New
1orR 20 san Francisco, for he made 4
name for himself on the Pacific coast
OeIOre he anne TO this city.
CHoer BFadyfs management Corbet4
DeCdhe champion pugiltst Of the world.
80 -, ialer 50 did Jeffries. Brady made
etU0,o00 out of each of them.
Bdt what makes him particularly in
C1teablns 1uSt.noW is the fact that, de-
splIe the theatrical syndicate. which
tH1Lols pracrleally all the theatres in
tuS couhtry, Brady prOposes to have
Lneatres Of his Own in the leading , ties
Of the land.
Pretty good for the former peanut
putcLet- Indeed, those who know
nlm best have begun to refer 70 him
as the new Napoleon of the aulilse-
ment world.
I19W does a man. out of nothing
gEuLL0a h5hlsel1 up into prominence like
MS ~ IS not the usual 'euccesSlb
Story OF the good young man who ~
RoIeHt- uhtlrlnS application - his
GeSh from morning till night. wins
@diu ioltune although Billy Bra
uy is q. hard enough worker. Rut IT,
Is a story OF success won bv ipeenzIitv
ana the exercise Of native wit. if Shove
now nut OF the most meager op~oorfuni-
SCld fortune may be commanded
g g @
IhIF1y-siX years old, without a gray
nair IN his head, with. snlCoth-shaven
ooyish race, blue eyes as clear as cpvs-
vi ana with s~hreWdness and buraor
paying tag in them. a SUNNY smile ana
1.SLn6 AauSh, rosy cheeks and fhe.
:. "a OF an athlete. Billy Brady is
know. az" P-9"SaHt 70
As to his plans for dramatic ~am-
paIgns Mr., Brady says:
never had ANYTHING To do ritb
au4eNltie, and I never will. IN sficIr
~ dTdfha. Within eighteen months
y nave my own theatres in New
session, Chicago and Phfladel-
~ 1 am not looking for a fight with
~ theatrical syndicate. and don't
INNS they're spelling for one with me
~ W. Mt to be indeDendeDt sin the
Dig cities, and I win be-.
oAt Bfady present are (
Chcie Iomss Cabin at the Academv.
Lovers Lane" ait the ~
gnu on the road; four Way Down
last companies on the road and
BETSY Ross; in Philadelphia.
Brady IS bold, energetic. olick to
Il3Ae uP MS mind, proof against dis
enlargement, and far-seeing Re does
80 thihS With a rush. He was exact
sutSe weeks putting SUDcle Toms
aDIh on the Academy stage. it would
Ldheh most managers six months,
planning and preparation.
4 reporter, sOIemnIv.
7iE PE 55dy drew one long breath, squared
lls shoulders, laughed, and said:
All right. III cOndense if as %
tiohs. wei / was born in San Fran
.lSC0 IN 1868. My father was Terence
= Di@uS d newspaper maneand one
u tnS Hnest authorities on Roman
aCHoIlG matters in the cOuntry He
ouhqed the San Francisco Monitor
cnlet organ Of the Catholic aburcb
N the Pacific coast.
he lett San Francisco when I waS1
years old and came to New work.
1e worked on the New York pape,s
NJ ne was unfortunate. and we were
ways poor We lived in East Broad-
y94' ana when / was old enough Was {
enI 10 the public schools. NV father Z
p~araIyzed ON MS ri9b+ sy5a CaH I
= Iue z of IL 7 wrote all his news [
dPer articles at his ~dfctation. vas
vi OF mischief n was expelled from 7
very school I attended. t
When I was IA my father dia5 H. Z
d the nrst man buried by the Press
Inc members of the old Press 2
LOOK an interest in me and at "a y
- mace steward Of the club. il vas /
LOT t"9 years in that capacity att g
q W&h, u l made a good deal 5
~ tuah 1naC / took a great interest Il
4 9poIllnS matters n CAME to be {
lusiuefeo an authority on them. I
Lote sporting paragraphs for the pa
-Is and when the six-dav waIkf0o
.atches We're going on j oraanizad ;
MspaPer messenger service. L made 7
GOOD deal Of money for q bOv-abo1f =
y q week on an average. But / got
y lieSn ana they fired me from the
CluD Then / started west for
IN francisco, and arrived. in OmabaI.
me winter of 1882, fat broke. u
put IN a terrible winter. car o
ca papers Tor 30 cents q week, slept b
a 3-cent lodging house and came ii
ar starving. At last I made uD nv s.
inq 70 beat my way on freight trains f,
san francisco, and got as far 40 D
oIIh Rlatte. l nearly froze there and c
ny Gay pack again to Omaha, Il
dere L round a. pass for me to San @,
'anclsco- Tt had been sent bv some Nc
Inc Press club members in New s,
IN Frisco I hunted up an uncle AMI
ny 70 work for him in a warehouse m
80 a week, but soon gave that up an5 L
frted u as train boy on the South q
n Pacihc railroad. / sold peanuts q
III aAu a lot OF truck. Z u
d made a big success. l.
I became a glitJerng star among q
e peanut butchers and simply coined ~
)ney. some weeks I made as much az
$3.50 for myself. I've sold mineral al
ecimen clocks to tourists for $40 when til
e regular price was So. j Simply M
the when was on it and tu
a beautiful nuisance of mvselc
.e next yearI was put on other Cali dc
ma roads, and i was getting on IA Re
'usly, when something happened qU
IS fired The passengers had COM ia
that was too fresh. re
w nile l was a train boy I got "A tr,
TO act one night with an am VI
dramatic club in san Francisco. Ia
e play was Under the GasIight' TO
oulas "A Wise, who now has the to,
part in Are You a Mason = ar
IS in the cast. David Belasco's broth g.
was the juvenile man. One of the 81,
npany was taken sick and I got his j,
-t, That gave me my taste for the
although I'd always had a I5an-
that way
When I was 10 years old. here in %
w York. I managed a boys show in .
basement of IL Division street un- 70,
a millinery store kept by a Mrs. 81
senbaUm. We charged 1 cent ad- to
Arthur Dunn who is leading ca
N in a Runaway Girl was one-of ins
boy actors in that basement. So cel
s Sam Bernard SO was Henry Lee. n
were Weber and Fields.
But to 90 back to Frisco. When -,
{ my job as train boy I made up my q
I'd to become an actor. BartIevi Tn
nr-oE hfTT-I- Fl, $500 ~ -