ackay, Marie Wilkins, Charles Coghlan and Richard Mansfield.
The most famous
London Square was the "Two Orphans,
inslated from the
success of the
French
and
worked about for $1,500 until Palmer
ad it.
It ran 180 nights, and
the sensation of the theatrical
The Claxton, who played Louise, the
ind girl, bought it outright and
played it for twenty years.
Other famous plays produced were
the Banker's Daughter," "My Part
is," "The Celebrated Case," "Ark
Light's Wife" and "Brighton." The
successes were followed by stock pro
ductions, in which Frank Mayo, Min
Palmer, Nelly
Wett, Kate Denin Wilson, Charles
Harris, Lawrence d'Orsay and Au
stus Cook and others played.
The first performance of "The Ml
do" in New York was given in the
London Square, with Roland Reed and
Alice Harrison in the title roles,
Charlie Chaplin Made Debut Here.
In 1885 James M. Hill took the theater and brought out a new and
ard-of-star, Margaret Mather, and
it on "Romeo and Juliet." During
his management, Chauncey Olcott ob
tained his first engagement in
season.
Howard,
Owen
opera.
little later Charlie Chaplin, now fa
ons moving-picture comedian, made
his debut in New York, with a small
part in a specialty company, which
Staged a week and was
first."
After the theater was turned to
a
elth, who operated it as a vaudeville
'use for many years, after which
it came a burlesque stock house.  . 