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Daly, (John) Augustin
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Daly, (John) Augustin (1839–99), American manager and dramatist, who while working as a dramatic critic wrote a number of plays, among them
Leah, the Forsaken (1862), based on a German drama, about the doomed love of a Christian and a Jewess in 17th-century Germany; and a melodrama,
Under the Gaslight;
or,
Life and Love in These Times (1867), containing a famous scene in which a man is tied to a railway track. In 1869 he took over the management of the
Fifth Avenue Theatre, which prospered until it was burnt down in 1873. He then opened another theatre, also on Fifth Avenue, and in 1879 opened Daly's, with a fine company headed by John
Drew and Ada
Rehan. In 1884 it was seen in London with such success that after further visits between 1886 and 1890 Daly decided to open
Daly's Theatre there. Both in New York and in London Daly's first nights were important events, and he set a high standard in spite of his tendency to tamper with the text of established classics. He also presented new plays and wrote about 100 plays himself, mostly adaptations, his later works including
Horizon (1871) and
Pique (1875).
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Strange Duets: Impresarios and Actresses in the American Theatre, 1865-1914.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Theatre History Studies; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...three star actresses--Augustin Daly and Ada Rehan, Charles...Ada Rehan, who forced Daly (despite his opposition...a company manager like Daly, but the commercial producer...controlled theatre of Augustin Daly, Adams was free...
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Pleasures of Sex and Tech
Magazine article from: Novel; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Pleasures of Sex and Tech NICHOLAS DALY, Literature, Technology...Further, we enjoy it. Nicholas Daly's incisive book makes clear...stage in popular culture (3). Daly explains that from the Victorian...considers plays by Boucicault and Augustin Daly. He includes references...
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19TH-CENTURY `UNDER THE GASLIGHT' WILL BARREL DOWN MODERN TRACKS.(What's Happening)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 5/26/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...anyway. Also, Victorian playwright/impresario Augustin Daly wants a stretch of the Hudson River, enough for a rowboat...barreling toward him. What could be more exciting? Augustin Daly (or perhaps his brother, Joseph, who was his anonymous...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/20/1998; 667 words
; ...Francesco Chiaromonte, composer and teacher, 1809; John Augustin Daly, playwright and theatrical manager, 1838; Max Liebermann...Carl Ludwig Emil Aarestrup, poet, 1856; Henri Jean Augustin de Braekeleer, painter, 1888; Sir Richard Wallace...
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Kim Marra. Strange Duets: Impresarios & Actresses in the American Theatre, 1865-1914.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Comparative Drama; 3/22/2007; 514 words
; ...xiii-xxii) and contains eight sections: "Pioneering on the Theatrical Frontier: Augustin Daly's Early Ventures" (1-30); "A Troubled Republic: Daly and His Leading Ladies" (31-72); "Birds of a Feather: The Queer Theatrical Empire...
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EMOTIONS, OVERACTING HAVE A FIELD DAY IN `UNDER THE GASLIGHT'.(Arts and Entertainment)(Review)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 6/5/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...touching. ``Under the Gaslight'' is an 1867 melodrama by Augustin Daly, a nearly forgotten genius who ``dominated the theatrical...the Gaslight,'' one of some 100 plays attributed to Daly, is generally considered to be his masterpiece. A 19th...
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Jeffrey D. Mason and J. Ellen Gainor, eds. Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theater.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Comparative Drama; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...function of museums; by Kim Marra on the actor/manager Augustin Daly and his relationship with the actress Ada Rehan; by Lee...s Gustavus Vasa at the Federal Street Theater and John Daly Burk's Bunker Hill, or the Death of General Warren...
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Lost debut novel of Wilkie Collins in print at last
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/17/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...plots. It seems he gave the bound holograph to his friend Augustin Daly, an American theatrical impresario and an avid collector of such material. After Daly's death in 1899, it was sold for $23 to bookseller...
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Americans on the British Stage
Magazine article from: The Hudson Review; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Theatre Company, under Laurence Olivier. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American managers like Augustin Daly and Charles Frohman ran theatres in London, but they were commercial operators noted for their business acumen; they...
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The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Magazine article from: Gender Forum; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...inclusivism as universal principles of progress. Valman's analysis of Rebecca's literary afterlife in works by Augustin Daly and Anthony Trollope, among others, leads to the identification of a pattern in which "narratives ostensibly about...
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Augustin Daly
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Augustin Daly 1838-99, American theatrical manager and...he opened his first theater. At his famous Daly's Theatre on Broadway he presented noted productions...Daly (1917); M. Felheim, The Theatre of Augustin Daly (1956).
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Daly, (John) Augustin
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Daly, [John] Augustin (1838–99), producer, director...his mother was a soldier's daughter. Daly's first exposure to the theatre was...revivals of the classics, although one of Daly's few faults was his insistence on rewriting...
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Daly's Theatre
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Daly's Theatre, London, in Cranbourn Street...about 600 in three tiers, was leased to Augustin Daly by George Edwardes , and opened in 1893...Night and As You Like It . In the same year Daly presented Eleonora Duse in the younger Dumas...
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Fifth Avenue Theatre
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...which were for a time connected with Augustin Daly . The first was built on 24th Street...Brougham , who failed miserably, so Daly took it over later in 1869 and housed...Horizon , and Divorce were among Daly's notable hits at the theatre...
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Rehan, Ada
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...Mary Standish in an 1879 revival of Augustin Daly 's Pique and then played in his...Assommoir . Her performances so impressed Daly that she joined his company and played...also at home in the newer comedies Daly presented, among them the American...
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