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DALY (1838-1899)  , American theatrical manager and playwright, was born in Plymouth, North Carolina, on the loth of July 1838 . He was dramatic critic for several New York papers from 1859, and he adapted or wrote a number of plays, Under the Gaslight (1867) being his first success . In 1869 he was the manager of the Fifth Avenue theatre, and in 1879 he built and opened Daly's theatre in New York, and, in 1893, Daly's theatre in London . At the former he gathered a company of players, headed by Miss 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 . He took his entire company on tour, visiting England, Germany and France, and some of the best actors on the American stage have owed their training and first successes to him . Among these were Clara Morris, Sara Jewett, John Drew, Fanny Davenport, Maude Adams, Mrs Gilbert and many others . ' Daly was a great book-lover, and his valuable Iibrary was dispersed by auction after his death, which occurred in Paris on the 7th of June 1899 . Besides plays, original and adapted, he wrote Woffington: a Tribute to the Actress and the Woman (1888) .