Word: schwartze
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
Yoshe Kalb was first performed last year in Maurice Schwartz's Yiddish Art Theatre in lower East Side Manhattan. It prospered when such uptowners as Noel Coward and Jed Harris went to see it, told friends about it. After 82-year-old Daniel Frohman saw it he was so impressed he could not sleep, even on the floor. When later he heard that it had been done into English, he telegraphed Actor-Manager Schwartz: ''May I have the honor to produce it?'' Replied Mr. Schwartz...
Kidnapping is a detestable crime which should be wiped out, but the barbarous methods that you sanction to accomplish this end are infinitely worse. David R, Schwartz Robert Rice Thomas Goldfrank Bruce Bliven...
...World's Fair, newsphotographers cornered General Italo Balbo and Mrs, Morton L, Schwartz, Manhattan socialite whose command of Italian gave her an advantage over other hostesses and enabled her to monopolize him both in Chicago and on Long Island. Cameramen barked: "Look this way, General. . . . Hold the lady by the arm, Mr. Balbo." General Balbo grinned, replied: "Nuts...
...this five-and-ten-cent-store business." Thereupon the trio tried to abduct a jeweler, who surprised them by running swiftly down the street instead of getting in their car. Pace went flying after him, wildly firing a revolver. The jeweler escaped unscathed, but a youthful bystander named Mollie Schwartz lucklessly and fatally stopped one of the slugs...