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Hebrew Nanngement-Wha the Dra-
ma Owes to the jew.


ma Owes to the jew.
From the Hartford Times
During the last few years highly in
terestinG phase of the drama in Amer
lea has been the rapidly increasing prom
inence of the Jew in matters theatrical,
notably en- the managerial side. There
has been a great deal OF discussion about
ne theatrical trust, where the canny, bus
mess touch of the Hebrew is particularly
noticeable. In this connection an article
by Hillary Bell in the New York Press,
on the occasion of the reopening of the
Olympia theater in New York by George
Lederer, is OF interest TIE writer DIS
claims any bias in favor of the Jew by
So wing that he is a Presbyterian and his
viows in the main seem fair. The Jews
are an eIte prising PEOPLE. says Hilary
Bell. Always inclined toward art they
have recently forced their way upward
in the theater. Anti-Semitic journals have
contested their progress step by step, yes
our music and drAma are gradual los-
ing their once dist nctively Gentle com
plexion and be oming Hebraic
Rachel was a Jewess. Bernhardt is a
Jtwess; Edwin Booth was a Jew by
blood and inherited genius. Olga Neither
sole Emma Calve, Lilli Lehman, An
ton Seid Mrs. James Brown Potter and
Minnie Seligman. If not Jews, were OF
Jewish extraction. The greatest OF all
impresarii Maurice Grau, is Jew. The
most enterDrising and powerful of mod
ern managers, Charles Frohman, is
Jew. The most artistic and refined OF
theatrical directors, Daniel Frohman, Is
a Jew The Haymans, Klaw and Erlang-
err, Nixon and Zimmerman are Jews. We
Ier and Fields are Jews. Heinrich Con-
ed is a Jew. The Sires are Jews. Ru-
Golph Aronson is a Jew. There are al
most as many Jews controlling the stage
as there are employed in its perform
ances.4
II is not poss BILE that the art of our
thtater shall become a separate PROVING e
Of the Jews IT is not only possible, but
probable that the government OF It's ven
lures n ay be ongross d by the Jews. our
Hebrew friends have Ce,lared remarkable
aLtituce for its affairs. They are shrewd
STUDENTS of public taste, thsy are courag-
eous in exIend ture, they are good losers
they are phiosophic and abundant in
hope, they have not personal fads or fam
cies to force upon the audience, trey DO
not take themsel or the drama TOO Sc
riously, they regard the entertainment of
HI people as legitimate business and
conduct it en- business principles.
Semitlsm seems to be the spirit Of med
ern Advancement in the drama and music
Gentle management has many faults of
which Hebraic management is free. WI
in the past dozen years We have observed
that various once famous and prosperous
Christians have been forced by Their own
errors to relinQuish control CT play-hous-
es that are now success sfully conducted By
Jews Managers who insist on giving en-
tertairment which they want rather than
providing amusement that the public
wants have fallen by the wayside. Lester
Wallack, who dec .ded that his patrons
must accept Cd comedy whether or not
they liked it, went into bankruptcy. BY
fcrcings Lillian Russell on us at time
when She was out of favor, Henry L. Abb
ley went into bankruptcy A. M. Palmer
fell into disaster because he st his own
opir ion as ainst that of the public.
The Jews have no nonsense or selfish
sentiment TO the running of a theater.
Ger ain Christian managers have compel
eli t. cir pa, rons to accept leading women
with whom their relations were meretri-
cious: others Rave forcsd their audienc s
to endure actors and authors for whom
they had no approval Such errors are not
Heb:aic Hath not a Jew eyes?' cried
Shylock Hath not a Jew organs, sens
pas slcns. affections?" Verify, but he does
not allow them to be obtruded upon the
public. Business is business. A Jews ro-
frances and friendships are as strong as
Christian 8, but they never interfere with
Ing to which his efforts are applied
The Jews are not only hard working in
Gefatigab,e brany managers; they are
stlf-respeciing. Scandal, too frequent in
the theater. seldom assails them. Certain
of the ch ef managers Of Eng and have
been involved in disgraceful incidents.
"T hsse" to gu re Shy ock again, "th Sc
BE- your Christian husbands. There has
never been scandal in the public prints
about our Jewish managers, The Jewish
entreprens ur does not, indeed, invariably
carry his private decorum into public. Mr..
Ziegfield is the author OF versions which
have shocked modesty. Mr.. Aatons In
PRODUCED "Charmion' and Mr.. Hammer
stein gave us the SILLY Dinner" George
Lederer's nymphs at the Casino are scan
tily clad and in the costumes of Edna
Wallace and Clara Betz he made the ju-
dico Gus grieve. Yet these offenses are not
Judaisuc Mr.. Dunn in Twenty third
street Senator Sullivan in Fourteenth
street and Sam Jack on Broadway are
conducting entertainments that are in no
way 10 be recommended TO decorous
Young persons. The disrobing drama is not
nee, ssarily Hebraic, for 1t is TO be noted
that the majority of our pre- sent lingerie
heterogeneous are good ca holics.
Because the jew has refused TO accept
theatrical entertainment s an art and
prostitutes it as a legitimate buslness,
the art of acting and of writing for actors
has immelsuraoly progressed in AmCri-
ca BY his efforts the enterprise OF anus
ing not only New York but the entire
country has been carried into an exact
scheme which employs all the famous
m dern drama'is S. which pays ample re
mu- e alton to tale ted players, which ac-
Guains the general people with the grace
Cf the drama, which interests everybody,
civilian ard rulai, in the theater, which
discovers new au h3rs and deI clips new
actors
1t was a Jew who introduced us 10
vaudeville. II was Jew who developed
the dainty, exquisite art OF Maude Adams.