Life — May 10, 1906 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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HAT $270,000 suit for damages seems to have irritated ‘one member of the managerial conspiracy. After the decision in the Supreme Court dismissing the writ of habeas corpus sued out by the managers in the matter of their arrest for criminal conspiracy against L1rE’s representative, it looked as though the managers had abandoned the conspiracy and were going to respect the deerce of the Court. Tickets presented by the writer at their doors were duly honored and, ‘apparently, they thought it was a case of kiss and make-up. This impression was yelled by the service of the summonses in the civil suit for damages. One of these was served on Mr. Daniel Frohman, whois manager of the Lyceum and Daly’s Theatre. While the conspiracy w slumbering, awaiting the result of the appeal from Justice Fitz- gerald’s decision, the writer was duly admitted to the Lyceum evening of April 23d, to Daly’s. But the fact that he may have to pay money for having conspired to muzzle a critic and, on seems to have got on Mr. Dan Frohman’s nerves. Between the 23d and 3oth of April that sum of $270,000 must have danced before his eyes and haunted his dreams until it had the same baneful and mind-disturbing effect as the thought of the three thousand ducats had on Shylock. At all events, the evening of April joth he resumed his part of the conspiracy, and the writer was denied admittance to Daly’s at the command of Mr. Dan Frohman. * 8 & T IS too bad that Mr. Frohman should let himself be so disturbed. He has so long posed as the only person connected with the Theatrical Trust who was not a vulgar illiterate, and who had any culture or education at all, that it will be a shock to persons who had taken him at his own valuation to sce him disturb himself about so mean a thing as the loss of a few paltry collars. Mr. Dan Frohman does not plaster himself with large diamonds and does not cat with his knife, in public, so when it has been necessary to have the theatrical crowd with which he associates ‘represented by one of its members, he has usually been chosen as being the least objectionable. This has given him a certain estimation of himself which he has been able to convey to some others who judge by surface appearances. It is a pity that he should abandon the pose even long enough to show spitefulness and resentment where money is concerned. When, at the inception of the conspirac Mr. Frohman took the position of a second David, King of Israel, whose heroic mission it was to defend and protect the Jewish religion against the Goliaths of theatrical criticism, there was a possibility of sympathy with him among those who did not know that the assumption of this position against an attack that had never been made was also a pose on Mr. Dan Frohman’s part. His religion hadn't been attacked and his coreligionists hadn't asked him to defend it, but Daniel threw himself nobly into the breach, and with a few persons his gallery play went for the real MRS. FISKE AS DOLC. thing. When even these learn that Daniel has been rattled into losing his composure by a law-suit for real money the sympathy that he gained by his pose as a defender of religion is likely to desert him. It was said in these columns when the damage suit was brought that the only way to punish some persons was through their pocket books. There are ways of beating a criminal prosecution, but a possible moncy loss—it drove Shylock mad and seems to Lave punctured the thin veneer of Mr. Daniel Frohman. comicbooks.com