Word: frohman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maude Adams who, in 1897, first appeared as Lady Babbie. It was her first production as a star under the old Charles Frohman regime. Both actress and play were deemed discoveries. These facts, of course, made Miss Chatterton's hurdle higher. She summoned all her sweetness, all her coquetry and even a few of the music-hall mannerisms she acquired in the late and unlamented Magnolia Lady. She did not get over the hurdle...
Carnival. Meet Mr. Molnar; meet the Charles Frohman Company; meet Miss Elsie Ferguson. Almost any evening you may meet them coming in a body out of the Cort Theatre with their baggage in hand. For these three, famed for consistent and successful ability, have collaborated in one of the foremost failures of the season...
...interesting study of a woman wild to jump the hedge of life's convention. He failed to set his study in a sufficiently decisive dramatic narrative. The woman's character is there in all its broad sweep and tiny detail. Who cares? The tale is tiresome. The Frohman production was surprisingly uneven for such an astute organization. They supplied actors and scenery instead of blending them...
...Grace de Grammont, in 1894, was Skinner's first success as his own manager. Then came the association with Charles Frohman and at last Kismet. A few more plays?The Honor of the Family, Mister Antonio, Blood and Sand ? and this story of nearly 50 years is done...
...Majestic (White Star) : Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, President of the National Woman's Party; Georges Carpentier, "gorgeous orchid man," and his manager Francois Descamps; Gilbert Miller, head of Charles Frohman, Inc., who brought several new plays including The Roman Feast by Ferenc Molnar, author of The Swan, The High "C" by Ernest Vajda, author of Fata Morgana; Miss Teddy Gerard, vaudeville actress who has been in England for several years...