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    Klaw and Erlanger was an entertainment management and production partnership of Marc Klaw and Abraham Lincoln Erlanger based in New York City from 1888...
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    South and several major locations in New York. Among their holdings were they owned "Klaw and Erlanger's Costume Company" and the "Klaw & Erlanger Opera...
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    Theatrical Syndicate. Erlanger was born to a Jewish family in Buffalo, New York. Erlanger and his partner, Kentucky lawyer Marc Klaw, started out as a theatrical...
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    narrow 42nd Street frontage, and an auditorium at the rear, on 41st Street. The tower was developed to house Klaw and Erlanger's booking activities. The two...
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    designed by Herts & Tallant and built for Klaw and Erlanger, the partnership of theatrical producers Marc Klaw and A. L. Erlanger. The theater has been used...
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  • (crater), a lunar impact crater Erlanger program, a mathematical research program proposed by Felix Klein in 1872 Klaw & Erlanger, a New York City based theatrical...
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    member of the Theatrical Syndicate, and he worked with Marc Klaw to run Klaw and Erlanger, the predominant theatrical booking agency in the United States...
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  • Frederick Solomon (category American dramatists and playwrights)
    writing music and/or lyrics and dialogue; conducting pit orchestras; and staging productions. For Broadway producers Klaw and Erlanger, he created several...
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    Lime Kiln Field Day (category American black-and-white films)
    a 1913 American black-and-white silent film produced by the Biograph Company and Klaw and Erlanger. Unnamed, unassembled, and abandoned by its producers...
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    producing titans Klaw and Erlanger. The Follies were a series of lavish revues, something between later Broadway shows and the more elaborate high...
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    John Cort (impresario) (category American theatre managers and producers)
    forced Klaw and Erlanger to allow theaters to book both Klaw/Erlanger productions and others. Still, while the fight was on, Klaw and Erlanger had backed...
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    Bob Cole (composer) (category African-American dramatists and playwrights)
    Cole-Johnson team were incorporated into larger shows by Klaw and Erlanger. Klaw and Erlanger's shows appealed the white audiences, allowing the black composers’...
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    from the 1903 novel of the same name and the 1907 follow-up, New Chronicles of Rebecca. Producers Klaw and Erlanger debuted it at the Court Square Theatre...
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  • The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary (1914 film) (category American black-and-white films)
    Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary is a 1914 silent film comedy produced by Klaw and Erlanger in association with the Biograph Company. It is based on a Broadway...
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    Roundup by Klaw and Erlanger. Edwards joined the Lubin Motion Picture Company from 1913 to 1915 as the female lead for their productions and fully "colored"...
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  • In Hayti (category Blackface minstrel shows and films)
    performances on October 16, 1909. Produced by Klaw and Erlanger, the show was directed by A. H. Holbrook and choreographed by Julian Alfred. The work was...
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  • J. Hickory Wood (category English dramatists and playwrights)
    by Klaw and Erlanger, including The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast (1901) and Mother Goose (1903). Wood was a biographer of the actor Dan Leno, and his...
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    The author's son Henry Wallace, stage producers Klaw and Erlanger, and the book's publisher Harper and Brothers sued the film's producers for violating...
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    Idea, The Liars, Major Barbara, and others. In 1908/09 Tearle reprised his title role in a lavish Klaw and Erlanger road production of Ben Hur. Tearle...
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    original production of Chris and the Wonderful Lamp was directed by Ben Teal and produced by B.D. Stevens and Klaw and Erlanger. The costumes were designed...
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    firm called Klaw and Erlanger. The positioning of Walker's chain of theatres along the railway route helped bring big Broadway shows, and the chain was...
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  • Theatrical Syndicate (category American theatre managers and producers)
    theatres and bookings. The Syndicate's power would peak in 1907. Charles Frohman, Al Hayman, A. L. Erlanger, Marc Klaw, Samuel F. Nirdlinger (Nixon), and Frederick...
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    Drury Lane pantomimes adapted into Broadway musicals by producers Klaw and Erlanger with the composer Frederick Solomon. Critics of the work, some of...
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    Retrieved 26 April 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Caryll, Ivan (1913). Klaw and Erlanger Present the New Musical Comedy "The Little Café". Chappell & Company...
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    Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (category Carrère and Hastings buildings)
    not allowed to use the name due to a disagreement with his partners Klaw and Erlanger. As a result, in 1926, he hosted No Foolin' (subsequently Ziegfeld's...
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    part of the theater. The same year, Belasco made an agreement with Klaw and Erlanger, enabling their respective firms to display products at each other's...
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    film Lime Kiln Field Day with Bert Williams, which was produced by Klaw and Erlanger, but they never finished or released it. In 1919, Mitchell went to...
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    Ben Hur (1907 film) (category American black-and-white films)
    Ben Hur—the publishing house Harper & Brothers, stage producers Klaw and Erlanger, and the author's estate filed a joint copyright-infringement lawsuit...
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    The Ham Tree (category Blackface minstrel shows and films)
    plot also included a man of mystery, Sherlock Baffles. Produced by Klaw and Erlanger and directed by Herbert Gresham, The Ham Tree premiered in Rochester...
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  • Gustave Kerker, and both book and lyrics by Harry B. Smith. The show was written with the backing of producers Klaw and Erlanger and was made specifically...
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