A LUSITANIA VICTIM

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2534, 7 August 1915, Page 3

A LUSITANIA VICTIM

i ;— FUNERAL OF THE LATE CHARLES FEOHMAN. Tho funeral of Charles Frohman, who perished on the Lusitania, was hold in New York on May 25 last (says tho New York "Theatre"), a remarkable tribute , to the memory of the late theatre manager-. A vast crowd of men and women, prominent in all walks of life, besieged Temple Emanu-El, at Fifth Avenue and Forty-third Street, where the services took place, and paid last homage to one who had won the regard and respcct of all. The players' profession, naturally, was the class most numerously represented. Never in tho history of tho city had such a large assemblage of theatrical celebrities been gathered together under ono roof. The services were extremely simple. Mr. Frohman had always expressed his aversion for spectacular exhibitions of sorrow, and out of respect to bis .wishes those present controlled their 'feelings as best they could. It had been requested that ilowers be omitted, but some beautiful floral picces wero sent by prominent players, among others Ethel Barrymore, Billie Burke, Mario Doro, Julia Sanderson, Ann Murdoch, and Doris . Keane. In behalf of the English actors in America, Sir Johnston Forbesrßobortson sent a great wreath of laurel, while Lady Gertrude, for the Amorican actors in England, sent a heart of roses. ■ The organist played Handel's "Largo" as the cofiin, covered with orchids sent by Maude Adams, was carried down tho aisle, followed by the pall-'ooarers chosen from Mr. Frohman's associates. These were: Authors—Augustus Thomas, Edward Sheldon, George Ade, Henry Arthur Jones, Paul M' Potter, John W. Alexander, Richard 1 Harding Davis, and Porter Emerson Browne. Actors —William Gillette, E. H: Sothern, Otis Skinner, Henry Miller, William Faversham, William Collier, -Francis Wilson, and John Barrymore., Managers—A. L. Erlangor, David Belasco, C. B. Dillingham, William Harris, Alf. Hayman, Marc Klaw, Charles J. Rich, John D. Williams, Samuel F. Nixon, and Harry J. Powers. . ... The services began with singing by the Cantor, after which the Rev. Dr. Joseph Silverman delivered his eulogy, taking as his text Mr. Frohman's last words: "Why fear death?" Augustus Thomas followed with an address. Ho said in part: "Working in the theatre with his companies aud stars, with the women and the men who knew and loved him, he accomplished less by word than by a radiating vital force, that-brought them into his intensity of feeling. The history of dramatic enterprise hulds no other name ,so potent, and his monument is the fact that for a generation he used his great power cleanly, wholesomely, optimistically, inspiringly. In a field dependent upon notice, he never bartered self-res-pect for notoriety. His life, so rich m earnest eifort and accomplishment, wo know was overflowing in circling compensations, and ho-laid it down as_ ho had worn it, an honour to his calling, tns country, and his race. In the spotlight, in a climatic moment of tho greatest world drama that human passion and war and death have ever staged. Fato chose him to represent, unconsciously, a nation, and to extemporise his part. His calm impromptu was a lino that will bo always written among the noblo farewells of the great. Among the mourners present were: Blancbo Bates, Lillali M'Carthy, Olivo May, Mathilde Cottrelly, Julie Opp, Ann Murdoch, Hazel Dawn, Ireno I'enwick. Julia Marlowe, Mane Doro, Isabel Irving, Adelaide Prince, Louise Drew, Minnio Dupree, Alice John, May Robson, Grace Elliston, May Irwin, Phyllis Neilson-Terry, Helen Hare, Hattio Williams, George M. Cohan, Sam Bernard, Richard Carle, ' Percival Knight, Louis Mann, William Morns, Frederic do Belleville, Leslie Fabor; Ferdinand Gottschalk, Joseph Herbert, Adolf Philipp, James T. Poll's, Cyril Scott, C. Aubrey Smith, Edwin Stevens, Robert Warwick, Joseph Weber Thomas Wise, Andreas Dippel, David Aiarneld, and others.