Word: frohman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first appeared before an audience. In Salt Lake City, where she was born, a player carried her on stage in a production called The Lost Child (Maude's mother, Annie Adams Kiskadden, was the leading lady). By the time she was 16, famed New York Producer Charles Frohman became Maude's mentor and manager. He helped create the shy, veiled creature whose personal life was an enigma. Frohman's order: "You are not to be interviewed. You are not to be quoted . . . People will wonder at you, yearn for the details of your private life . . . Let them...
Died. Viola Allen, 78, turn-of-the-century stage favorite; in Manhattan. She made a hit in Shakespeare in the '80s, eventually played in almost everything, was a Charles Frohman stock company star and leading lady to Joseph Jefferson, retired in 1918 at the height of her popularity...
...earned Wallace only $300 in the first seven months. But nine years later, in 1889, 400,000 copies had been sold. In 1913, Sears Roebuck ordered a million copies. Just before the play was produced, Charles Frohman said to Producers Klaw & Erlanger: "Boys, I'm afraid you're up against it-the American public will never stand for Christ and a horse race in the same show." The play ran for 21 years...
...luxurious, "absolutely fireproof" theater, its facade all carved stone, its interior all red and gilt. On that evening in 1893 Manhattan did not realize that its great theater district of the future was taking root. The new Empire Theater seemed a rather ambitious venture, even for Producer Charles Frohman and his famous stock company. It was baptized with a melodrama laid in an Army post, called The Girl I Left Behind Me (by David Belasco and Franklyn Fyles). When the Empire celebrated its soth birthday last week it was the oldest and most distinguished legitimate theater on Broadway...
...bride. When they met in 1937 she was a receptionist at Pan American Airways, he the polo-playing, twice married chairman of the board. She had come to Manhattan some seven years before to study singing as the protégée of aged Impresario Dan Frohman, who hailed from nearby Sandusky. In last week's wedding publicity she was headlined as a singer. She sang briefly in 1939 with the St. Louis Municipal Opera, has yet to make the Metropolitan, where Whitney is a board director. Lately she has sung in churches, occasionally in concert...