The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-29
Marc KIaM, 56 To-day.
 Attempts Theatrical { CnnaueSf of Enu1and.
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Mare K1aM senior tentac1e of the theatrical sstrllst,s which operates un- der the corporation name Of klaw & Erlanger, was born dfty-six years ago to-day in Paducah, ky, nearly a thou sand miles from that dear Broadway where he now reigns as the ack- nowIedged king Of the mimic world. 6As producing center Of great men you have to hand 1t to Raducah.s for that port Of entry on the Ohio also gave to Broadway, Park Row, Yon- kers and Inc world that large and eel ebrated huucrist, Irwin s. Cobb. without whom this terrestrial sphere would be q much sadder place than 1t is.
 Col sc0loneP, by right of His Kent lucky birthwas reared to manhood and educated in LouisviIle He passed through the low and high schools of the Kentucky metropolis, studied law and was admitted to the bar. All might have been well had he not made the acquaintance of one Abraham Lincoln EEIanger, a youth full press agent, theatricaI manager and producer. Mir Erlanger so fired the irnaginations of the Blue Grass lawyer with tales or the vast wealth fo be derived from theatrical endeav- DTS that Col KIaw immediately hik- ed for New York. Arrived in the great rnetropolis. the two young men; opened a little booking office. It was thirty odd years ago that MT. K1aw abandoned the law to become the- atrica1 manager, and in the inteFven- ing period he has become the dom inant figure in the dramatic affairs E of the North American continent. and is now rapidly extending his sphere of influence to England In the de- veIoprnent of the giant corporation zW9iich now plays so large part in the theatrical activities Of the United States and Canada, Mir. K1aws legal know1edgeah has been of immense wall lle, and on many occasions it kept the t.trust off the rocks of expensive litigation
 Mr. Klaw was a London visitor this month, and expressed himself to a correspondent as being jubilant over the fact that the importation of Arn- erican plays into London now exceeds the mum Der of English plays sent to America. The Strand and Shaftes- tinuation of Broadway, declared Mi. k1aw-and,E except for his modesty, he might have pointed out in rnir- TOT, the person largely responsible for that condition of dramatic af- fairs.
 stIn former times said Mir. KIaw. English plays were better under stood in America than American ilra- mas were in England, but that is all changed. Iondonefs snoWF applaud the same points in Potash & Perl- rnutter' that Americans do. and the same is true of s3roadway Jones' and other American productions in Lon ,1on.''
 There will be grief along the Great White Streak because Mir. KIaw has decided not to import A1hrodites from Paris for American production.
 sAphrodite- will not do in Amer ica,'' said MT. K5aw. because one of the principal female characters is nude, and the play is useless without this feature.,,e
 So, just because :. of our Puritanic notions, HEr. Klaw won't permit us to ksee ssAphrodite.s' 2
 \ MT. KIaw was largely influential in bringing about the truce between the tssyndicates and the ependents.s which ended the long theatrical war The head of the Syndicate is a. man