Word: frohmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Daniel Frohman, 89, dean of U. S. producers, whose career in the theatre went back to 1871; in Manhattan. "Uncle Dan," who first made himself useful as the 15-year-old New York Tribune copy boy who could decipher Horace Greeley's handwriting, learned about the theatre as advance agent for a minstrel show. But unlike his brilliant brother Charles (lost on the Lusitania in 1915), who organized huge nationwide theatre combines, he limited his productions to Manhattan and, after 1885, chiefly to one theatre. In the roster of his great Lyceum Theatre Stock Company (with David Belasco...