 It opened on 27 June 1893, and was demolished in 1937.The theatre was built for and named after the American impresario Augustin Daly, but he failed to make a success of it, and between 1895 and 1915 the British producer George Edwardes ran the house, where he presented a series of long-running musical comedies, including "The Geisha" (1896), and English adaptations of operettas, including "The Merry Widow" (1907).After Edwardes died in 1915 Daly's had one more great hit, "The Maid of the Mountains" (1917), which ran for 1,352 productions, but after that the fortunes of the theatre declined; Noël Coward's play "Sirocco" (1927) was a notable failure.