Word: frohmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Horse Marines. At the theatre she found a big red apple from Uncle John Drew (apples are traditional at Drew-Barrymore opening nights). Next morning the papers weren't very good to Captain Jinks. But they were wonderful to Ethel, and a week later Producer Charles Frohman put her name up in lights. The first time she saw the lights, she bawled like a baby...