Charles Irohbman:

                       an

               Appreciation

             By 7ames M. Barrie

 r      HE man who never broke his word. There was
       a great deal more to him, but every one in any
       land who has had dealings with Charles Frohman
will sign that.
  I would rather say a word of the qualities that to his
friends were his great adornment than about his colossal
enterprises or the energy with which he heaved them
into being; his energy that was like a force of nature,
so that if he had ever "retired" from the work he loved
(a thing incredible) companies might have been formed,
in the land so skilful at turning energy to practical ac-
count, for exploiting the vitality of this Niagara of a
man. They could have lit a city with it.
  He loved his schemes. They were a succession of
many-colored romances to him, and were issued to the
world not without the accompaniment of the drum,
but you would never find him saying anything of him-
self. He pushed them in front of him, always taking