t out the
previous incidents of the story that is told in court, and then
they go back to the court and work that way through the play. It
has been a great sensation and is doing great business.

_Concerning one of his English productions in London, he writes Dion
Boucicault:_

I want on my side to have you understand, however, that as far as I
am concerned I am keeping the theater open for the company and the
employees, and not for myself. I should have closed positively if I
had not my people in mind. That was my only reason....

_To Dion Boucicault:_

It seems to me that there are too many English actors coming over
here, and I fear some of them will be in distress, because there
don't seem to be positions enough for all that are coming, and
people are wondering why so many are coming instead of enlisting.
It might be well for you to inform some of these actors that the
chances are not so great now, because there are so many here on the
waiting-list. I use a great _many_, but I also use a great _many_
Americans, as merit is the chief thing.

_To Otis Skinner:_

I felt all that you now feel about the vision effect when I saw the
dress rehearsal. It looked to me like a magic-lantern scene that
would be given in the cellar of a Sunday-school.

_To Dion Boucicault, October, 1914:_

I am despondent as to what to do in London. I'd rather close. I
don't want to put on things at losses, because I do not wish to
send money to cover losses to London now. The rates of exchange are
something terrific, and therefore I don't want to be burdened with
this extra expense. Twelve pounds on every hundred pounds is too
much for any business man to handle. Over here we are feeling the
effects of the war, but the big things (and I am glad to say I am
in some of them) are all right.

_To an English actor about to enlist in the army:_

I have your letter. I am awfully sorry, but I haven't anything to
offer. So therefore I congratulate the army on securing your
services.

_Declining an invitation for a public dinner:_

I thank you very much for your very nice invitation to be present
at the dinner, but I regret that, first, I do not speak at dinners,
and, next, I do not attend dinners.

_One of the lines that Frohman wrote very often, and which came to be
somewhat hac