Word: mailroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mailroom clerks stiffened their sinews to grapple with the hundreds of thousands of cards and gifts-from fruitcake and ship models to luggage and buck deer-that stack up every year, the week before Christmas. Secret Service men could infinitesimally relax: Christmastime is a slow season for cranks & crackpots...
Yoshe Kalb (by Fritz Blocki and Maurice Schwartz, from a novel by I. J. Singer; produced by Daniel Frohman). From 1880 to 1911, Daniel Frohman was one of Manhattan's most astute and successful theatrical producers. He started as a mailroom wrapper on the New York Tribune when Horace Greeley owned it, later became advance agent for Callender's Original Georgia Minstrels. When he started producing for himself, he gave David Belasco his first New York job, as stage manager, Frohman managed the late E. H. Sothern for nearly 25 years, leased the old Lyceum Theatre to house...