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  Charles Frohman -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
Charles Frohman (July 16, 1860 - May 7, 1915) was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (Someone who produces theatrical performances) theatrical producer.
Frohman was born in (additional info and facts about Sandusky, Ohio) Sandusky, Ohio, the brother of (An Old Testament book that tells of the apocalyptic visions and the experiences of Daniel in the court of Nebuchadnezzar) Daniel and Gustave Frohman.
Frohman died in the 1915 sinking of the (additional info and facts about RMS Lusitania) RMS Lusitania by the (A person of German nationality) German (A submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes) submarine, (additional info and facts about Unterseeboot 20) Unterseeboot 20.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/charles_frohman.htm   (354 words)

  
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Her relationships with fellow Charles Frohman players Marie Doro and Billie Burke do not appear to have been anything more than professional camaraderie, and the audiences she granted to Mercedes de Acosta were nothing more than the grudging indulgence of a gushing, and pesky, fan.
Frohman's death deeply affected Maude, leading at least one biographer to speculate that he was the long rumored love of her life after whose death she could never love another person, much less marry.
That Frohman could continue to exert such a hold on her from beyond the grave is certainly unlikely, and while the "ruined her for other men" story, whether about Frohman or some other, unknown, lover, has a touch of charming romance to it, it is a bit too melodramatic to be easily accepted.
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 The Virginian Pilot: RUTH D. FROHMAN.(LOCAL)@ HighBeam Research
Frohman was a longtime resident of Sandusky, Ohio.
She was the widow of Charles Eugene Frohman of Sandusky and the daughter of the late James A. and Beatrice Dunsmore of Imperial, Pa. She was preceded in death by her son, David James Frohman of Suffolk.
Frohman was a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and was an art teacher in the Sandusky public school...
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:73153846&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (193 words)

  
 Charles Callender - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Callender was the owner of flface minstrel troupes that featured African American performers.
Renaming them Callender's Original Georgia Minstrels, he and his business manager, Charles Hicks, followed the lead of other showmen such as J.
He continued to operate his secondary troupe until 1881, when he sold it to Charles and Gustave Frohman.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Callender   (346 words)

  
 Charles Frohman: The Lusitania Resource
Charles Frohman, 54, was born on 17 June 1860 in Sandusky, Ohio, United States.
Charles Frohman is also credited with overseeing the transition of Broadway going from a stock system to a star system.
Frohman gave the pretense of dismissing their fears, but he took the precaution of dictating his entire program for the next season before sailing, something that was unprecedented for him.
www.rmslusitania.info /pages/saloon_class/frohman_charles.html   (2349 words)

  
 THE THEATRICAL SYNDICATE
Charles Frohman's talents and energies were very much like those of E. Harriman in that they found their largest and best expression when dedicated to a multitude of enterprises.
Charles Frohman had first counted the cost of this theatrical demoralization when his great "Shenandoah" run at the old Star Theater had to be interrupted while playing to capacity because another attraction had been booked into that theater.
Charles Frohman contributed his growing chain of theaters to the organization and secured a one-sixth interest in it which he retained up to the time of his death.
www.wayneturney.20m.com /syndicate.htm   (12506 words)

  
 §14. The Star System; Theatrical Trusts; Charles and Daniel Frohman. XVIII. The Drama, 1860–1918. Vol. 17. ...
After Daniel Frohman left the Madison Square Theatre and opened his Lyceum (in May, 1885), and after his brother Charles (1860–1915) had opened the Empire Theatre (in January, 1893), with estimable stock companies, it became evident that two new elements confronted the American theatregoers.
It is true that Daniel Frohman produced pieces by American playwrights like Belasco, De Mille, Marguerite Merrington (Captain Letterblair, 16 August, 1892), Fitch (An American Duchess, 20 November, 1893; The Moth and the Flame, 11 April, 1898; The Girl and the Judge, 4 December, 1901), Mrs.
It is also true that Charles Frohman, opening his Empire Theatre with the Belasco-Fyles military drama, The Girl I Left Behind Me (25 January, 1893), figured largely in the development of Gillette, Fitch, and Thomas.
www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/227/1114.html   (761 words)

  
 Charles D. Frohman Gov't Affairs Consulting
For Akal Security (http://www.akalsecurity.com) Charles lobbies members of Congress and the Committees with jurisdiction over the many agencies (he lobbies the agencies too) for which the company provides contract security.
Frohman's lobbying, congressional and think tank work involved a wide variety of issues, he can lobby committees overseeing agencies handling most facets of life, from security to business regulations, liberty, health care, housing, finance, and taxation.
Frohman graduated with a BA in Government from the College of William and Mary.
www.cfrohman.com /aboutus.html   (231 words)

  
 Charles Frohman --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
Frohman was born on June 17, 1860, in Sandusky, Ohio.
U.S. theatrical manager Daniel Frohman was the brother of Charles Frohman, the foremost theatrical manager of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States.
Daniel was born on Aug. 22, 1851, in Sandusky, Ohio.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9324003?tocId=9324003   (550 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Charles Frohman (Theater, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Charles Frohman[frO´mun] Pronunciation Key, 1860–1915, American theatrical manager and producer, b.
Starting his career as a box-office clerk in Brooklyn, N.Y., Frohman became a successful producer with Bronson Howard's Shenandoah (1889).
More articles from AllRefer Reference on Charles Frohman
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/Frohman.html   (264 words)

  
 Talkin' Broadway - Broadway 101 "1900-1910, Give My Regards To Broadway!"
Charles Frohman had begun his separate career as the manager of theater professionals and in 1893, opened his own theater, The Empire, one block up from the Casino.
Belasco separated from Daniel Frohman and was producing his own shows, generally the same style of melodrama and light comedy that was popular at the time, and Charles Frohman had become a "star-maker".
In 1905, Frohman again assailed Barrie to write a script from one of his novels; an improbable play concerning alligators and pirates, baby-sitting dogs, little boys trapped in eternal child-hood and a character that was a wandering spot of light.
www.talkinbroadway.com /bway101/2.html   (3620 words)

  
 Guardian Series
CHARLES Frohman was an American theatre impresario at the turn of the 20th century with a Marlow obsession.
Frohman would regularly catch the train from London to Slough to be picked up by Miss Chase in her Ariel-Simplex Car, driving to the Compleat Angler Hotel where they would mingle on the riverside.
Each summer Frohman rented a cottage in Marlow and was an avid supporter of the Marlow Amateur Dramatic Society, always paying his five shillings and insisting that his theatrical friends should join the group.
www.eppingforestguardian.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=685   (949 words)

  
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For Barrie it meant the meeting with Charles Frohman, who was to be his greatest American friend and producer; for Miss Adams it was to open the way to her real career, and for Frohman himself it was to witness the beginning of an intimacy that was perhaps the closest of his life.
Charles Frohman himself was always frank enough to say that he had no great desire to produce Shakespeare.
Charles Frogman had an enormous ambition for Miss Adams, and that ambition now took form in what was perhaps the most remarkable effort in connection with her.
www.bookmice.net /darkchilde/maude/adams40.html   (6772 words)

  
 Charles Frohman Biography / Biography of Charles Frohman Biography
An American theatrical producer, Charles Frohman (1860-1915) saw the theater make its transition from stock companies to the star system.
Charles Frohman was born on June 17, 1860 in Sandusky, Ohio, the son of a traveling peddlar.
Frohman loved the theater from boyhood, when as an eight-year-old he hawked souvenir programs for a local production of The Black Crook, America's first musical show.
www.bookrags.com /biography-charles-frohman   (223 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Big Town - Big Town Soundbook: Voyage to Neverland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
That's why 54-year-old Frohman, in 1915, was altering plans for his annual journey to the continent.
The past two decades had seen Charles Frohman - almost single-handedly, his admirers felt - lifting American stagecraft from its post-Civil War doldrums, bringing good taste and quality to a morass of cheap, risqué presentations.
The Lusitania offered a man of Frohman's stature such amenities as a luxury suite with open fireplace, curtained windows instead of portholes, separate quarters for his valet.
www.nydailynews.com /city_life/big_town/v-bigtown_archive/story/178847p-155495c.html   (897 words)

  
 Collectors Post - MAUDE ADAMS Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
The powerful producer, Charles Frohman, then took control of her career.
Frohman had for some time been trying to persuade J. Barrie to dramatize his novel The Little Minister.
The previous year, her mentor and friend, Charles Frohman had died.
www.collectorspost.com /Actors/maude_adams.html   (380 words)

  
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Frohman, in a perfectly calm voice, said: "They've done for us; we had better get out." He knew that his beautiful adventure was about to begin.
Frohman's body was recovered there was the most beautiful and peaceful smile upon his lips.
Frohman's was the only body I could recognize in the Queenstown mortuary, and perhaps it will interest his many friends in London and New York to know that the famous manager's face in death gives uncommonly convincing evidence that he died without a struggle.
www.gutenberg.org /files/15480/15480.txt   (15797 words)

  
 The Jolivet Family and the Lusitania
Frohman on with his, and my brother-in-law was helping me with mine, someone stole his lifebelt." Scott journeyed back downstairs for more, but ended up giving his to an old woman.
Frohman, swept me with such great force that my buttoned shoes were swept off my feet.
Charles was described as being from Carmansville, New York.
www.revdma2.com /Jolivets2.htm   (7674 words)

  
 Reason: American Anarchist: The life of Mary Frohman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
Mary Frohman was born in 1947; her father was Charles Frohman, a biochemist known for his work on serotonin.
Frohman went to work in the national office, while Fish wrote for the union paper.
(Meredith, who had already known Frohman for nearly a decade, had brought me along as a date.) At 44, she could have passed for 60: Her days of drink and drugs were behind her, and she wasn't getting tear-gassed anymore, but she smoked heavily, ate poorly, and coughed constantly.
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 TLB-complete
FROHMAN (to Barrie) They tell me that twelve years is meant to be Silk and Fine Linen, but I see you've broken the rules too.
BY COMMAND OF MICHAEL CHARLES FROHMAN PRESENTS PETER PAN BY J.M. Although the adults in the AUDIENCE seem to be enjoying the play, Peter and Jack look singularly bored by it all, and are flicking rubber-bands at each other.
Frohman, as Smee, rescues Nico from the confusion, lifts him onto his shoulders and lends him a club, which Nico puts to immediate use on the head of an unsuspecting PIRATE.
www.jmbarrie.co.uk /The_Lost_Boys/TLB-complete7.htm   (2824 words)

  
 Who's Who in Musicals - Additional Bios XI
One of the greatest producers of his time, Frohman worked his way through a series of theatre jobs before producing his first drama in 1886.
From 1910 on, Frohman concentrated his efforts on Broadway, importing such London hits as The Arcadians (1910), The Sunshine Girl (1913) and The Girl From Utah (1914) -- a production which interpolated Jerome Kern's "They Didn't Believe Me," opening a new era in the musical theatre.
Frohman's took particular pride in having produced both the New York (1899) and London (1901) premieres of Barrie's Peter Pan.
www.musicals101.com /who21.htm   (1784 words)

  
 EJ Phillips 1830-1904 Theatre companies and managers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
Frohman and several other men met secretly in 1895 "to organize what became known as the Theatrical Syndicate or Trust.
Charles Frohman was at the height of his career when he died in the sinking of the Lusitania.
Charles Walcott [Isabella Nickinson] were members of Wallack's Theatre Company.
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 Talkin' Broadway - Broadway 101 "1910-1920: Over There" Part 2
In 1915, the Germans published in American papers that they were serious in their threat to incorporate their new "submarine" technology in their hostilities in Europe, and Americans were advised not to travel on ships with foreign registries.
Charles Frohman, in response to a summons by James Barrie, had booked passage to London.
John Drew pleaded with Frohman not to go while England was at war, stating that if Frohman got himself blown out of the water, Drew would never forgive him.
www.talkinbroadway.com /bway101/3b.html   (1116 words)

  
 Maude Adams-All The Comforts of Home
From the book Charles Frohman:" Manager and Man by Issac F. Marcosson and Daniel Frohman, with an Appreciation by James M. Barrie.
Frohman had just acquired the lease of this theater.
Frohman ordered a little supper of ham sandwiches and sarsaparilla, after which he rehearsed the love scene, which simply consisted of a tender little parting in a doorway.
www.bookmice.net /darkchilde/maude/mplay23.html   (545 words)

  
 Justus Miles Forman: The Lusitania Resource   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
Charles Frohman to help him find a better audience across the Atlantic.
Frohman, however, did present them with a bottle of champagne to be sociable.
Forman, Klein, Jolivet, and others were among the guests at Charles Frohman's party on the night of 6 May.
www.rmslusitania.info /pages/saloon_class/forman_jm.html   (639 words)

  
 Realms of Fantasy - February 2005 Folkroots Column by Terri Windling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
Charles Dickens once stated that Little Red Riding Hood was his first love, and if only he could have married her, he would have known perfect bliss.
J.M. Barrie was already a well-known novelist and playwright when he sat down to write his first and only play for children, which he completed and offered to the theater producer Charles Frohman in the spring of 1904.
Frohman took an enormous commercial risk in backing a play of over fifty parts and of actors wired to soar above the stage.
www.rofmagazine.com /2005/feb/col-folkroots.html   (949 words)

  
 Memorable Quotes from Finding Neverland (2004)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
Charles Frohman: A fortune, James, but I am fortunate because I can afford to lose a fortune.
Charles Frohman: Oh, great, 25 orphan children, now my nightmare is complete.
Charles Frohman: You know what happened, James, they changed it.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0308644/quotes   (1458 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
A Quantum Obstruction to Embedding (with Charles Frohman), Mathematical Proceedings of Cambridge Philosophical Society, vol.
The Yang-Mills Measure in the Kauffman Bracket Skein Module (with Douglas Bullock, Charles Frohman), Commentari Mathematici Helvetici, vol.
The Kauffman Bracket Skein as an Algebra of Observables (with Douglas Bullock, Charles Frohman), Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, vol 130, pp.
math.boisestate.edu /~kania/publications/pubs.html   (281 words)

  
 The Story of J.M.B.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
In his private life Barrie was far from happy, but of the friendships he made outside the domestic circle there is a long list, and none was more fortunate than his association with that other bizarre child of the theatre, Charles Frohman.
Such was their faith in one another that they never once dreamed of signing a contract, and the tests to which their loyalty was put is in itself a drama.
When Frohman lost his life on the Lusitania, Barrie lost the best producer he ever had, on either side of the Atlantic; a loss from which, he would have been the first to admit, he never quite recovered.
www.theatrehistory.com /british/barrie002.html   (1366 words)

  
 D-F: Last Words of Real People   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
Charles Darwin's study of the diversity of animal species led him to conclude that living things evolve from a process of natural selection.
Charles James Fox spent the majority of his political career in the opposition.
Charles Frohman was the preeminent American theatrical manager between 1890 and 1915.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/6537/real-d.htm   (4392 words)

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