AUGUSTIN DALY - AUTOGRAPH SENTIMENT SIGNED 12/01/1896 - HFSID 40229
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AUGUSTIN DALY
The American Theatrical manager signs "Very truly" on December
1, 1896 in New York
Autograph Note Signed: "Very truly/Augustin Daly", 5½x2½. At
upper margin, Daly has written: "New York Dec 1/96". American
theatrical manager and dramatist Augustin Daly (1838-1899) is best
known as the operator of Daly's Theatre on Broadway, where he presented
noted productions of Shakespearean comedies. Daly, who was a drama critic for
several New York City newspapers from 1859, had made his debut as a manager
with his melodrama, Under the Gaslight, his first play that was not an
adaptation of another work. Daly, who also adopted plays from French and
German, opened his first theater in 1869, and he would reign as the "autocrat
of the stage" for some thirty years in both New York and London. A strict
disciplinarian who set high standards of production for his "company of
stars", which included John Drew, Clara Morris and Ada Rehan, Daly was a
biographer as well as a playwright. Ink slightly spread (completely legible).
Lightly creased. Shaded at upper left margin, touching the upper loop of the "N"
in New. Otherwise, fine condition.
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