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On March 22, 1873, Mrs. Drew first put her son on the stage as Plumper in Cool as a Cucumber by Charles Mathews. She herself took the part of a maid, and, to tease him, improvised the line: "I wonder what he'll be like when he grows up!" Unruffled, young Drew bowed to "the maid," saying: "Like mothe—like son!"
Augustin Daly of the old Daly's Theatre, Manhattan, and later Charles Frohman were John Drew's principal managers, presenting him in a new play each year, nearly always in the part of a "gentleman," gallant, whimsical, endearing, gay.
Successes: Diplomacy, Love's Labour's Lost, A Marriage of Convenience, His House in Order, The Gay Lord Quex, The Cat Bird, The Circle and Trelawny of the Wells, the great all star revival (TIME, Feb. 14) in which he last appeared.
*There are four U. S. Cardinals: O'Connell, Boston ; Dougherty, Philadelphia ; Mundelein, Chicago ; Hayes, New York.
*Who became an actress, married Actor Maurice Barrymore, and gave birth to Lionel, Ethel and John Barrymore, now foremost U. S. players.