The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-09
BROADWAY MOURNS
CHARLES FROHMAN
Gloom Pcrvadcs Offices While
Friends Await Confirma-
.. ton Of News. .t.
EI.EIN.S FATE UNKNOWN

shril voiced newsie was piping.
"Frohmans body found Frohman's
body found ''
In the Frohman offices above III"
lobby all was gloom. Half an hour
before 'ih's the reporter had found Dan
Eel rrohman in the lobby OF the Lyccum
Theatre surrounded by friends. Daniel
Frohman at this time had taken 1t for
granted that his brothers dead body
had been found. but even a long time
after this All Iiayman. head Of the
Charles Frohmans offices in the abb
sence Of Mr.. Frohman. was hoping
against hope that the manager was
alive. e.. -. .... ...
"All the word we have" said Mr.
Rarrnrr.whiie the voire of the news,e
6e~a.-in the street came through the
open window, "is a telephone message
from the Cunard people in which they
said that. they'd got n cable saying that
q nude body had been found but that
they did not know whether it was
'Frohras' OF 'Ferman.' meaning Justns
Miles Forman. the playwright,
"Bur,---Mr. Haymah added hopelessly,
swe have a representative at Queens
town. and we havei received no word
from him. There's no definite word
from anybody"
1t was evident that at this hour the
Frohman forces while trying to look
at the bright side realized that Mr..
Frohman. constantly In touch with his
home offices by cable even in normal
times. was the sort OF traveller who
would be expected TO cable here at the
earliest moment II he had escaped.
Frohm man Players Notified.
In the late afternoon Mr.. Hayman
was still sending out kilograms. about
thirty in all, to Frohman players spread
over the States. from Mr.. Frohmans
"The Hyphen" company, playing in Bos-
ton. across country TO Miss Barrymore
At Chicago. Miss Adams a, Kansas City.
and west 10 the coast, where John Drew
played Rosemary" las, night at Ever.
EFT. Wash. The gist OF the telegram
was -sfat nothing DEFINITE has been
learned. ' .-
Mr.. Frohman said Mr.. Hayman had
called chiefly to see his production o,
Baires Rosy Rapture" at Mr. Froh-
mans Duke of York's Theatre, London
and to confer with Haddon Chambers
End W Somerset Vaughan. He had
Int" as1 to-re;urn on July l.
no definite announcement as TO the
fu;ure business plans Of my brother
frm,H Daniel Frohman said IN reply 10
question during the afternoon, can
b., made now OF course. All Hay
map. who has the business at his finger
tips. undoubtedly will continue to con-
duct the FIRMS affairs. He is the man
20 see about the matter when an an
roVnce!nent is ready. which probably
Will be next week"
Mr.. HaymRn later told the reporter
that regardless OF what happened on
the other side. the FIRMS contracts
would I've carried out next season and
the productions planned for would. OF
course. be made,
Urged Him to Sail on New York.
The Wednesday before Charlie
called Daniel Frohman added sadly
~ pleaded with him to sail on the New
York, the ship on which Miss Ellen
Terry and other friends Of Charley's
left. Rut-=well, even when we were
could argue Charley into doing a thing
once he had made up his mind 10 dc
something else.
The Lusitania torpedoed" he sale
e. nls with a laugh. 1t couldn't be
done-shes too fast"
Mr. Hayman, John Williams and
others had pleaded with him also &c
take some other boat. And +, was
learned yesterday also that Mr. Drew
Rar
others had urged him by telegraph no,
60 e. on the Lusitania.
His answer that the Lusitania was too
fast to be torpedoed was the same an.
swer made by tho ships skipper, Cant
Turner. at dinner in the Hotel Knicker-
booker fStended by Charles Klein and
Arch St1wtn. the producer, the night be.
fore the Lusitania sailed. And Cant
Turner had made the same answer tc
Capt, Turner'S niece, Miss Mercedes
nesmore, now playing with Miss Hing
ton in The Lie" on the day the vessel
sailed.
We're too fast for the submarines
and again. when he and Miss Desmore
the tuzG bttere. the fsh sailed. Went
20 photographers and had their pic.
ture, taken iogethsr.p ,t~s -, =
No News Rteardinx Klein.
! Late in .tlee..dsy yesterday Mr.. Sell
vyn. who virtually owed his start in IN.
theatrical world to Charles Klein and
was the playt sights closest friend. had
received no word concerning the fate
OF Mr., Klein except cable which ran
"No news ycr--'-'-'rhts was signed b,
MIS- Klein and was received by Mr.
Selwyn Yesterday forenoon.
Nrs Klein ami her six-vear -old sor
arr living in London. Philip, n grown
son- 81 Mr.. kiefns by hfs' hrst wife
was last hera- Of, n few weeks ago
a. the Grand Hotel Paris. PhiiI
Klein went abread to obtain moving
pictures If war scenes.
When Nr, Klein sailed for Europe or
the LusitanIa oHe Of the manuscripts h
carried with him was entitled Under
Fire" a comedy by Roi Cooper Megrue
whtci,.t+rr Sst~yr Arm, are TO produce a
Atlantic CITY pexL month. The Selwyns
who "re Mr.. Klrln's American agents
had entrusted the Mergue play to Mr.
Klein, who was to have arranged fol
its production in London.
During afternoon visits to various the
atntal ofnees on broadway yesterday
no rews OF the fate OF Justus Mile.
FoSlrS n-of avs sort was 20. he obtained
Daniel Frofrnane ,becketsIblAsed, with
sheaves Of kilograms OF inquiry and
sympathy from Sir Johnston Forbes
Robertson, Cyril Maude. Miss Julia Mar
love, l.. IL. Sothern. David Belasco and
many orhers