Dan Quinlan (Daniel Cullinan) worked in his native city for several years in the rolling mills, and kept on rolling until he got his first professional engagement as property man with the Barlow, Wilson Minstrels in 1883. From this humble beginning Mr. Quinlan rose successively and successfully to the positions of stage manager, interlocutor, manager and finally proprietor. He was identified with such prominent minstrel organizations as McNish, Johnson and Slavin’s; Sweatnam, Rice and Fagan’s; McNish, Ramza and Arno’s; Geo. Wilson’s; Billy Van’s, and Primrose and West’s Monte Carlo Company, in which Geo. Wilson was starred. He was for six years with Al. G. Field’s Minstrels, serving in the capacity of interlocutor, stage manager and manager. Early in the present century Mr. Quinlan organized the Quinlan and Wall’s Imperial Minstrels, of which he was the proprietor, and conducted for several seasons.
Mr. Quinlan’s first appearance in the “middle” was with Sweatnam, Rice and Fagan’s Minstrels at Philadelphia, about 1888; subsequently he broke away from the conventional style of the interlocutor, and instead of keeping his seat during conversations, he would walk about, to and fro on the stage, leaving it entirely at occasional intervals; this was a unique departure, and was apparently well liked.
He likewise produced some original first parts, notably “A Reception to the Diplomatic Legion,” “A Day and Night at the Pan-American Exposition” and “International Military Bivouac.”
Mr. Quinlan played vaudeville with Keller Mack, with whom he was associated since January 16, 1905. August, 1910, he formed an alliance with Vic. Richards.
Dan Quinlan was born at Elmira, N. Y., April 21, 1863.
Otis Skinner, the representative romantic and Shakespearian actor, during the week of February 18, 1878, at the Philadelphia Museum, played Jerry Blackburn in Frank I. Frayne’s production of “Si Slocum.” There is a suspicion that this was not Mr. Skinner’s only appearance in black-face.
Tom Le Mack (McAloon), well known as a comedian and dancer, as well as the composer of such songs as “Phoebe,” “Little Johnny Dugan” and “The Wedding of the Lily and the Rose,” made his first appearance in minstrelsy at Heuck’s Opera House, Cincinnati, March 18, 1885, with Haverly’s Mastodons.
Subsequently he appeared with Thatcher, Primrose and West’s Minstrels and other well-known companies.
About fifteen years ago Mr. LeMack formed a partnership with Tom Lewis; they played vaudeville engagements, and a season with Donnelly and Girard in “The Rainmakers.”
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| JNO. F. FIELDS | FRANK HANSON |
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| CHAS. REYNOLDS | GEO. REYNOLDS |
| (REYNOLDS BROS.) | |
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| EVERETT WESLYN | FRANK CASEY |
| (WESLYN & CASEY.) | |