The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-31
ADJUSTMENTS.

CHARLES FROHMAN'S DAY-The
day-the movements and accomplish
ments from breakfast to the small
hours of the night-of a. man of the
multifarious interests of Charles Froh-
man, must of necessity be of consider
all closely the affairs of the stage in
this country. There is probably no
more modest man than this same Mr..
F'rohman. He is SO wrapped in the in
terests of his actors, his dTamatfsts
and his associate managers. THAT 1T
rarely occurs to him to consider the
figure he cuts in the business ne has
selected for his life work. And so, al
though the papers TEEN with articles
and paragraphs duplicating his name,
as yet no one seems to have given
careful attention to the daily life OF
the man.
Charles F'rohman lives aft the Wal
doqf hotel, ON Fifth avenue and Thin
ty-third street, New York. He has
several rooms situated SO high that the
house tops. Upon the walls of his
drawing room and "den' hang photo
graphs, of the largest size, of noted
persons in the theatrical world that
owe much to this manager. Among
them are A w. Pinero. Henry Arthur
Jones, John Drew, John Hare, Viola
Allen, Beerbohm Tree Clyde Fitch,
Wilson Barrett, Olga Nethersole, Vic
torian Sardou. They are all inscribed
with the autograph OF the originals
together with some interesting express
sion Of good will.
Mr.. F'rohman is an early riser. By
8 O'Clock he is seated at ONE of the
damask covered tables in the oriental
room of this beautiful hosiery. Fol
lowing the custom of the French, his
breakfast is such principally in name
a cup of coffee and a roll frequently
complete It, Then he takes his daily
bicycle ride he makes fit a. point to ride
at least twenty blocks before getting
to his desk.
You will never find a frown upon Mr..
Frohman's face. No matter how en-
crossed, how important the undertake
ing he is cogitating, what stress of
circumstances, there is serenity in the
frank blue eyes and the round, firm
face. He dresses simply and in taste;
SO we'll, in fact, that one is never aware
of the kind or color of his garme nts.
Nine thirty o'clock invariably finds
Mr.. F'rohman at his desk in the En-
pire Theater building. 1t is not until
Charles Frohnnan The pile of letters
waiting him ON the slide of his enor-
nous oak desk, would suggest to the
rural mind that he is a postmaster
that had Forgotten to assert his bum
die. No letters addressed to him are
opened by an assistant and WouldLbe-
dramatists incipient actors and cross
road managers happened long ago on
the scheme of writing personal in
the corner of the envelope to capture
some of Mr.. F'rohman's waking mo-
ments. With lightning like rapidity he
deyastates these letters. Frohman puts
aside this hour for himself and his
stenographer, who forthwith appears.
The Napoleonic manager then swings
out the telephone from his desk and
converses with Philadelphia, Boston,
Chicago, and two or three other i'm
portant cities.
1t is the day for the foreign mail. An
odd dozen letters that Mr. Frohman
has dictated the day before are brought
to him for signature. Some are ad-
dressed to the greatest living dramat-
lists in France; others are to some of
the greatest living dramatists in Eng
land In them the manager touches
on the kind of chara eters he wishes in
plays being especially written for the
Empire Stock company, or for John
Drew, or for Olga Nethersole, ETC., as
the case may be.
Then he opens his book of cablegram
blanks and sends a long message of
800 words at % cents a word, making
an offer for q play produced in London
the night before, which. according to
private cable dispatches from Mr.. Will
lam Lestocq, Mr. Frohman's London
representative, is worth the having.
Another American manager has read
a cablegram in a morning newspaper
concerning the play and has written
a formal letter that will reach its desti-
nation through the medium of an
ocean steamship. That is why that by
the time the other managers letter has
reached the author Of the play, the