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Arnold Daly, actor, died last week in Manhattan. His life was brilliant and formless, his death terrible, grotesque and blurred. He began as an office boy for Charles Frohman. He became dresser for John Drew. Leaving Mr. Drew, he said that he would become an actor-not only an actor, a better actor than John Drew. He appeared with Fanny Rice in The Jolly Squire in 1892; three years later his own name was in headlines across the façade of the old Herald Square Theatre. He was playing in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson...
...exceptionally gifted cast to support the exceptionally gifted Miss Cowl was assembled by the Frohman Co. Mabel Terry Lewis and Halliwell Hobbes-both from England-stood out pleasantly. Mr. Coward's invention and conversation for the first two acts were agile and entertaining. Toward the end he fumbled. The direction was in the hands of Basil Dean, an opinion of whose abilities is submitted elsewhere on this page...
...skinned girl of mel ancholic temperament," began acting in the late 80's, when "Poor Eddie" (E. H. Sothern) was playing Brooklyn in a farce he had written. "A nice lovable boy," said his tor." family, Sothern "but he made will his never name in make an ac Frohman melodramas, and was recognized as a romantic actor after his notable success in The Prisoner of Zenda. Miss Marlowe, after three yeara of intensive training with a certain Miss Dow, her stage aunt, began to take leading parts. In 1904 they announced that they would play together in Shakespeare...
Sothern) was playing Brooklyn in a farce he had written."A nice lovable boy," said his tor." family, Sothern "but he made will his never e name in make an ac Frohman melodramas, and was recognized as a romantic actor after his notable success in The Prisoner of Zenda. Miss Marlowe, after three yeara of of intensive training with a certain Miss Dow her stage aunt began to take leading parts...
...figure in the American theatre"; in New York City. She was the Elsie Janis of Civil War soldier-entertainment. After the War, she supported Edwin Booth and others of the renowned Ford's Theatre Stock Company in Baltimore. For 19 years she was employed by the late Charles Frohman. She supported Charlotte Cushman, Joseph Jefferson, Edwin Booth, Maude Adams, John Drew, William Gillette, Otis Skinner, Billie Burke. She last appeared in 1913, with Alia Nazimova, in The Marionettes...