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...named are: Regnar E. Bird, E. Langdon Burwell, H. Whitney Dodge, John B. Fisher, David O. Hagedorn, Eugene H. Hoffman, Langdon P. Marvin, Andrew G. Rosenberger, Roger S. Schafer, William H. Witt, Spencer A. Klaw, and Donald H. Keene...
...Spencer Klaw, Carmel, New York--Loomis School...
Wayne F. Anderson, Andover; Edward L. Burwell, Exeter; Louis R. Chauvenet, Belmont Hill; Franklin N. Cunningham, Milton Academy; Richard D. Edwards, Choate; David D. Henry, Country Day School; Spender Klaw, Loomis School; Horace G. Lunt, Kent School; David A. Park, Gunnery School; John S. Parker, Jr., St. mark's; Howard A. Reed, Andover; Elliot L. Richardson, Milton Academy; Bernard D. Shea, Roxbury Latin; Charles C. Smith, Middlesex School; Archibald H. Spaulding, Jr., Thayer Academy; Richard S. Suter, Groton; Stephen Winship, Andover...
Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. opens his movie career barking for Sandow at Chicago's World's Fair in 1883, and dies broke on Broadway amid souvenirs of his, the finest shows of the era. His life crosses Little Egypt, Klaw and Erlanger, Stanford White, Harry K. Thaw, Lillian Russell, and started on their way such stars as Fannie Brice, Anna Held, Jerome Kern, Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers, Billie Burke, Harriet Hoctor, Ray Bolger, and the glorified American girl. Revolutionizing the New York stage he began by copying foreign revues and built successively his follies, his shows on the roof garden...
...Jacob J. ("Jake") Shubert were born in Syracuse, N. Y. In 1900 they came to New York and bucked the powerful Klaw & Erlanger theatrical trust by renting the Herald Square Theatre and persuading resonant Richard Mansfield to act in it. Five years later Sam Shubert was killed in a Pennsylvania Railroad wreck. Lee and Jake (who hates to be called Jake in print) carried on the business and prospered mightily. They bought theatres, built theatres (with the assistance of innumerable unofficial partners). They made New York's most imposing music hall out of an old riding ring on Broadway...