Frohman Would Have Starred Them All

A Sextette of the More Distinguished of the Younger Leading Ladies of Our Stage

TIME was when the late Charles Frohman seemed determined to star every young woman who could walk across the stage without once falling on her face. A hundred factors, many of them economic, have rendered such a policy démodé. Roughly it is the shift of the impresario from the position of saying: "Where can I find an actress for this play?" By just that shift of emphasis, playwrights are usually better served today, but for this gain there have been some corresponding losses. It is not the manager but the playgoer who decides in any generation which are stars and which are satellites in the theatrical firmament