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Show DAN OALY 13 DEAD. Eccanlrlo and Popular Comedian 8uo cumba to Conaumptlon. Dan Daly, moot eccentric and one ol the best beloved of comedlana, died sik',1 nly March 20, In the Hotel Yen lomo. New York. He had been anf-farltiir anf-farltiir a lung time from consumption, l.ut nlwnya Insisted to bla friends that hi rllment was stomach trouble. Hla w.fa died a little more than week BRo, and the comedian failed rapidly since that time. He wa 40 yeara old. The Daly fnmlly, ot which Dan wa tho youngest son, wa noted because of tho thentrlral successes of Ita mem-bora. mem-bora. Dan waa called the "eccentric comedian." hecauso nobody could Imitate Imi-tate him, although there were more "Imitations" of hi methods than of thoso of any other comedian. Cecelia Loflua and Fay Templeton each had an "Imitation nf Dan Daly" in tholr reperlolrns. Ilia automotle movements move-ments and tne peculiarly alow and measured tones of his voice won him fame. When he waa a boy, hla brothers. Tom and Hubert, were already on the stage, and they gave him a email part lu "Vacation," In which he waa very iiccoeft'.l. Ho did hotter In "Upside "Up-side Down" and better atill In "Th City Directory." Under Oeorg W. Lederer'a management he played la "In Oay New York" at the Herald Square Theater, and finally In "Tho Hollo of New York," In which he won hla graateat auccesa here and In London. Lon-don. Laat summer he wa th atar In "John Henry," which proved failure, fail-ure, and alnce then be haa been la "Dan" Daly, tha Comedian, vaudeville. So great g drawing card was be In vauuuv.lle that managera willingly paid him Il.OuO a week lor his services. |