Theatrical entrepreneur. He was a theater manager and a producer. In 1896, Alf Hayman of San Francisco, joined Marc Klaw, Abraham L. Erlanger, and Charles Frohman of New York, and Samuel F. Nixon-Nirdlinger and J. Fred Zimmerman of Philadelphia, in forming The Theatrical Syndicate. The syndicate gave them a monopoly on theatrical bookings of road companies throughout the United States. By the 1900s they managed over six hundred first-class theaters coast-to-coast. The power of the Syndicate was so restrictive that it eventually brought about the unionization of actors in the legitimate theater; however, that power was finally broken by Philadelphia's Schubert brothers in the 1910s. Hayman later became the head of the Frohman Company, which produced silent movies and Broadway plays.
Theatrical entrepreneur. He was a theater manager and a producer. In 1896, Alf Hayman of San Francisco, joined Marc Klaw, Abraham L. Erlanger, and Charles Frohman of New York, and Samuel F. Nixon-Nirdlinger and J. Fred Zimmerman of Philadelphia, in forming The Theatrical Syndicate. The syndicate gave them a monopoly on theatrical bookings of road companies throughout the United States. By the 1900s they managed over six hundred first-class theaters coast-to-coast. The power of the Syndicate was so restrictive that it eventually brought about the unionization of actors in the legitimate theater; however, that power was finally broken by Philadelphia's Schubert brothers in the 1910s. Hayman later became the head of the Frohman Company, which produced silent movies and Broadway plays.
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