The Lusitania Murders
“With the exception of last evening’s meal, Frohman had apparently not ventured out of his quarters since boarding; and he was not your typically blustery theatrical character, despite a propensity for surrounding himself with specimens of that obnoxious breed.I was aware of him by reputation, vaguely at least—Frohman was one of the best-known and most beloved men in New York—but it was Miss Vance, that delightful actress turned detective, who prepared me for the interview.“It’s rather remarkable,” she told me over luncheon, “that he agreed to see us at all.”“And why is that?” I asked.“Well, the word is he’s surprisingly shy, considering his profession—they call him ‘the Silent Man.’ He never solicits interviews and his celebrity is something he himself has never encouraged.” Charles Frohman, she explained with respect and even awe, was widely credited with raising the standards of the American theater, almost single-handedly dragging it out of the muck of disrepute, where fifty years ...ago John Wilkes Booth and his pistol had sent it crashing.In an effort to see to it that the authors and actors he favored received proper exposure, Frohman bought theater after theater; he often had as many as eight new plays in rehearsal at once—and upward of five hundred companies touring.MoreLess
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