Word: frohman
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Yoshe Kalb (by Fritz Blocki and Maurice Schwartz, from a novel by I. J. Singer; produced by Daniel Frohman). From 1880 to 1911, Daniel Frohman was one of Manhattan's most astute and successful theatrical producers. He started as a mailroom wrapper on the New York Tribune when Horace Greeley owned it, later became advance agent for Callender's Original Georgia Minstrels. When he started producing for himself, he gave David Belasco his first New York job, as stage manager, Frohman managed the late E. H. Sothern for nearly 25 years, leased the old Lyceum Theatre to house...
Yoshe Kalb was first performed last year in Maurice Schwartz's Yiddish Art Theatre in lower East Side Manhattan. It prospered when such uptowners as Noel Coward and Jed Harris went to see it, told friends about it. After 82-year-old Daniel Frohman saw it he was so impressed he could not sleep, even on the floor. When later he heard that it had been done into English, he telegraphed Actor-Manager Schwartz: ''May I have the honor to produce it?'' Replied Mr. Schwartz...
...marry and spends 15 years wandering about as Joe The Fool ("Yoshe Kalb"). Critics admired bits like a graveyard dance by an idiot girl and a candlelit trial of Joe The Fool for bigamy before 70 rabbis but found the rest dull, pompous, obscurely symbolical. After three nights. Mr. Frohman closed his first production in 22 years with an old man's sigh of dismay...
Died. Edward Hugh Sothern, 73, retired Shakespearean actor, husband of Actress Julia Marlowe; of pneumonia; in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel. In 1885 Daniel Frohman spotted him playing in Mona, took him into the Lyceum Stock Company where he became leading man and married the leading lady, Virginia Harned. They were divorced in 1910. Some time before that, began the halcyon days when he toured with Julia Marlowe in a train of twelve cars, doing Shakespeare from Hamlet to Twelfth Night. He "retired" in 1916, appeared again at intervals, collapsed on a Denver lecture platform three years ago and retired...
Said Producer Daniel Frohman, 83: "One reason I admire my stomach so much is because it never has failed to talk back if I abused...