DANIEL FROHMAN - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 11/12/1923 - HFSID 304608

DANIEL FROHMAN
Letter expressing regret that a weekly stipend intended for his sisters has been cut off
Autograph Letter signed: "Danl Frohman", 1 page, 8½x11. No place, November 12, 1923. Typed caption affixed at top edge (2 surfaces). Pencil note (unknown hand) in lower margin: "Noted by Mr. Reilly Nov 13 - 23". To "Dear Gilbert", in full: "Yours about the cutting off of the weekly salary to me, received. It was, however, not a salary for myself. The Co. continued, in this way, the weekly stipend my brother Charles had always allowed as his share toward his four living sisters' maintenance; and they deemed it best to continue it as a technical salary to me. I appreciate the conditions which compelled its curtailment, altho I am sorry it has to be. Yours Nov 12".  Accompanied by the typed letter to which Frohman is responding; dated November 10, 1923, affixed on verso of the letter. Daniel Frohman (1851-1940), with his brothers Charles and Gustave Frohman, created a system of road companies to tour the country with plays created - and often running simultaneously - in New York. Daniel personally managed the old and new Lyceum Theatres, and the Lyceum Stock Company, and produced hit plays like The Count of Monte Cristo, The Days of Days and The Witching Hour. After brother Charles died aboard the Lusitania (torpedoed by a German sub in 1915), he managed his brothers' theatre stars. Daniel Frohman also entered the new motion picture industry, partnering with Adolph Zukor in the Famous Players Film Company and helping to produce more than 70 movies. Frohman was the longtime President of the Actors Fund. As this letter shows, there were indeed seven Frohman siblings, three brothers and four sisters, born to Henry and Babette Frohman, Jewish immigrants from Germany. Normal mailing folds. Lightly creased. Lightly worn. Pencil notes (unknown hand). Otherwise, fine condition.