Ada Rehan
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Ada Rehan was an American actress and comedian who typified the "personality" style of acting in the nineteenth century.
Ada Rehan in 1897
Ada Rehan as Baroness Vera in "The Last Word,” ca. 1890–1891; from the Cabinet Card Collection of the Boston Public Library
Rehan's autograph on a theatre poster
A scene from "The School for Scandal" with Ada Rehan and Anne Hartley Gilbert, ca. 1891–1895. Cabinet Card Collection, Boston Public Library
Augustin Daly
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John Augustin Daly was one of the most influential men in American theatre during his lifetime. Drama critic, theatre manager, playwright, and adapter, he became the first recognized stage director in
Ada Rehan
…performing in one of Daly's own plays, Pique, produced by New York's Grand Opera House and starring Fanny Davenport when the successful theatre manager Augustin Daly first took note of her in April 1879. Later that year, when he opened his third New York theatre, Daly's Fifth Avenue Theatre, Rehan joined his company…
Augustin Daly
Reading The Play (1882)
Poster from the Royal Lyceum, 1886