After this engagement Eddie Girard went to San Francisco, and played with Charley Reed’s Minstrels, after which, in conjunction with Billy Arlington and Harry Wyatt, the late manager of the Mason Opera House, in Los Angeles, Cal., Arlington, Girard and Wyatt’s Minstrels made a brief tour.
This was Mr. Girard’s last appearance in black-face.
Subsequently as Gilbert, Donnelly and Girard, and later Donnelly and Girard, “Natural Gas” played several seasons; this was succeeded by “The Rainmakers” and “The Geezer.”
For several years past, Mr. Girard and his wife, as Girard and Gardner, have played successfully in vaudeville.
Willie Girard (Maloney), died in New York, September 5, 1892.
Eddie Girard was born in Paterson, N. J., August 28, 1858.
John Daly, one of the best known and most capable dancers of modern minstrelsy, made his first appearance at St. James Hall, Buffalo, N. Y., doing a black-face song and dance. August 9, 1878, Mr. Daly became a member of the Barlow, Wilson, Primrose and West Company, and continued with them until the dissolution of the organization in 1882; he then joined the Thatcher, Primrose and West Company, at their inception, and continued with them during their existence, seven years.
Mr. Daly next allied himself with the Primrose and West Company, and remained two seasons.
Season of 1891-92, he was with Cleveland’s Minstrels, and for the two seasons following he cast his fortunes with George Thatcher in the “Tuxedo” and “Africa” companies.
Mr. Daly then became a real legitimate actor with the “Bowery Girl,” “Paradise Alley” and “Sis Hopkins” and “A Daughter’s Devotion” Company’s, and he also took the regulation trip to vaudeville as Daly and Miss Paine (Mrs. Daly), and Daly and George Lewis.