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5 unusual facts about Augustin Daly


Arthur Bourchier

He also acted with Charles Wyndham at the Criterion Theatre and travelled to America to appear with Augustin Daly's company, for whom he later played the part of Robin Hood in Tennyson's The Foresters at its London premiere.

Augustin Daly

At the first of these, he gathered a company of players, headed by Ada Rehan, which made for it a high reputation, and for them he adapted plays from foreign sources, and revived Shakespearean comedies in a manner before unknown in America.

Caroline Miskel-Hoyt

Caroline moved to New York City at the age of eighteen and soon made her professional stage début touring with Augustin Daly’s famed repertory company that by season's end saw her playing Phoebe, the shepherdess in Shakespeare's As You Like It.

Fanny Davenport

Later (1869) she was a member of Augustin Daly's company; and afterwards, with a company of her own, acted with especial success in Sardou's Fedora (1883), Cleopatra (1890), and similar plays.

Theodore Wharton

He worked for a number of stock companies, including that of Augustin Daly until 1899, and then became a stage manager.



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