W. A. BRADY, Manager

W. A. Brady was born in San Francisco in 1865. His father was Terence A. Brady, who in 1869 joined the editorial staff of the New York Herald. Finding himself penniless in Omaha in 1882, after his father's death, Mr. Brady became a Southern Pacific Railroad train boy. While in San Francisco one day he went to the California Theatre and, telling Bartley Campbell that he was an actor, got a place in "The White Slave." Max Freeman, the stage manager, recognized him as the train boy and discharged him as an actor, to hire him as a call boy at seven dollars a week. Two weeks later Brady, on the illness of William H. Thompson, took his place as Natchez Jim in the play. Brady sent out his first company in 1888 in a repertoire of fifteen plays, some pirated, including "She," dramatized from the novel by Brady himself. He bought "After Dark" from Dion Boucicault in 1890 and starred in it as Old Tom. Then he put James J. Corbett in the cast before the latter wrested the prize ring championship from John L. Sullivan. He produced "The Cotton King," "Humanity," and "Old Glory," and obtained the rights to "Trilby" outside of New York and Chicago, and sent it to Australia. He also produced "Nero" with Wilton Lackaye at this time. He leased the Standard Theatre, New York, in 1896, called it the Manhattan and produced there "The Turtle," "Mlle. Fifi," "The Manicure," "The Weather Hen," "Women and Wine," and " 'Way Down East." In 1899 he married Grace George, an actress. In 1901 he made an all-star revival of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" at the Academy of Music, New York. with Wilton Lackaye, Mrs. Annie Yeamans and John E. Kellard in the company. The same year he produced Clyde Fitch's "Lovers' Lane" at the Manhattan Theatre, New York, and "Foxy Grandpa," which ran three years. He helped stage an all-star revival of "The Two Orphans" at the New Amsterdam Theatre, New York, in 1904, with Miss George as Louise, and staged an original-cast revival of "Trilby" at the same theatre in 1905. In 1903 he starred Wilton Lackaye in a dramatization of Frank Norris's novel, "The Pit," and in 1904 he produced the first American performance of Ibsen's "Pillars of Society" in New York with Wilton Lackaye as the star. In 1901 he also produced H. A. Du Souchet's "Betsy Ross" in Philadelphia, Wilton Lackaye's "The Law and the Man," from Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables," and Rupert Hughes's "The Richest Girl in the World" were two of his productions in 1906. He assumed the management of Robert Mantell in 1905. He produced the Rev. John Snyder's "As Ye Saw" in Boston in 1905. Mr. Brady's activities were not limited to the theatre. He was one of the chief figures in the development of the new Coney Island, was the promoter of many big sporting events at Madison Square Garden and managed many champion pugilists.