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Samuel Frederic Nixon-Nirdlinger

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Samuel Frederic Nixon-Nirdlinger

Birth
Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana, USA
Death
13 Nov 1918 (aged 70)
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
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Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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Theatrical entrepreneur. He began life as the son of a Fort Wayne clothier, but became an important force in American theater at the turn of the 20th Century. In 1896, he and his partner, J. Fred Zimmerman of Philadelphia, joined Alf Hayman of San Francisco, and Marc Klaw, Abraham L. Erlanger, and Charles Frohman of New York, to form The Theatrical Syndicate. The syndicate gave the six 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. Nixon-Nirdlinger was the uncle of drama critic George Jean Nathan.∼Philadelphia Public Ledger
Published November 15, 1918

NIRDLINGER - Nov. 13, SAMUEL F. NIRDLINGE. Relatives and friends invited to services, Sun., 2 p. m., 842 N. Broad st. Int. Mt. Sinai Cem.
Theatrical entrepreneur. He began life as the son of a Fort Wayne clothier, but became an important force in American theater at the turn of the 20th Century. In 1896, he and his partner, J. Fred Zimmerman of Philadelphia, joined Alf Hayman of San Francisco, and Marc Klaw, Abraham L. Erlanger, and Charles Frohman of New York, to form The Theatrical Syndicate. The syndicate gave the six 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. Nixon-Nirdlinger was the uncle of drama critic George Jean Nathan.∼Philadelphia Public Ledger
Published November 15, 1918

NIRDLINGER - Nov. 13, SAMUEL F. NIRDLINGE. Relatives and friends invited to services, Sun., 2 p. m., 842 N. Broad st. Int. Mt. Sinai Cem.

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A variant spelling of the surname is Noerdlinger.

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