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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...
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...