Word: frohman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the automatic elevator in which he was riding to his apartment, atop Manhattan's Lyceum Theatre, got caught between floors, Producer Daniel Frohman read his newspaper from 1 a. m. until the janitor rescued him at 10 a. m. Said he: "The first time I got caught in it I had Mary Pickford instead of a newspaper with...
...Wodehouse collaborated on some of these early shows. For years he and Kern did ghost-work in London for Producer Charles Frohman. Kern got $15 a week, Wodehouse $12. Sally, Sonny, Stepping Stones, Show Boat, Sweet Adeline. . . . Kern had a superstition that shows whose name started with the letter S went better. At least they earned him enough to keep a house boat off Palm Beach, to indulge his penchant for collecting (and reading) rare manuscripts and first editions, so many valuable ones that at auction three years ago they brought...
...splendid audiences at the Universities, sometimes turning hundreds away. Daniel Frohman came to see us in the Westchester County Recreation centre. You know his brother Charles, the chap who went down on the Titanic got me to first come to this country way back in 1906." Then suddenly, "See that girl there. . . She's Edith Mayor, neice of Miss Edythe Wynne Mathison. We starred her in "Everyman." He also pointed out Frederic Sargent, Russell Thorndike and Miss Llewellyn...
Died. Mrs. Rachel F r o h m a n ("Mother") Davison, 69, wife of Dr. David H. Davison, sister of Producer Daniel Frohman and the late Charles Frohman; of apoplexy; in Manhattan. During the War she organized a troupe of entertainers to amuse the soldiers, since then had devoted three nights a week to similar entertainments at camps, hospitals, prisons...
...Berry Schools for mountain children at Mount Berry, Ga., protégée of President Theodore Roosevelt; with the third annual medal of Manhattan's Town Hall Club for "an accomplishment of lasting merit."* Other nominees for the award: Author Newton Booth Tarkington. Producer Daniel Frohman, Playwright Marcus Cook Connelly, Banker George Foster Peabody...