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    Jacob J. Shubert (August 29, 1879 – December 26, 1963) was an American theatre owner/operator and producer, the youngest brother of the notable Shubert...
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    Manhattan, New York City. It was founded by the three Shubert brothers — Lee, Sam, and Jacob J. Shubert — in the late 19th century. They steadily expanded...
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    Due to their father's alcoholism, the three Shubert sons (Lee Shubert, Sam S. Shubert, and Jacob J. Shubert) had to give up much of their formal education...
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  • (1871–1953) Sam S. Shubert (1878–1905) Jacob J. Shubert (1879–1963) Atika Shubert (born 1970), American journalist based in Spain Fern Shubert (born 1947),...
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    Samuel S. Shubert (August 27, 1878 – May 12, 1905) was an American producer and theatre owner/operator. He was the middle son in the Shubert family and...
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    circumstances, and Lee Shubert went to work selling newspapers on a street corner. With borrowed money, he and younger brothers Sam and Jacob eventually embarked...
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  • Shubert Foundation is an American private foundation founded in 1945 by Jacob J. Shubert and Lee Shubert in honor of their brother Sam S. Shubert (1878–1905)...
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    and was built for the Shubert brothers. Lee and J. J. Shubert had named the theater in memory of their brother Sam S. Shubert, who died in an accident...
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    traveling revues, and was spotted dancing in Detroit by producer Jacob J. Shubert. Shubert put her in the chorus line for his 1924 show, Innocent Eyes, at...
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    Winter Garden Theatre (category Shubert Organization)
    size. The Winter Garden was originally operated by brothers Lee and Jacob J. Shubert. In its early days, the theater frequently hosted series of revues...
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    revue each summer thereafter for several seasons. In 1912, Lee and Jacob J. Shubert began an annual series of elaborate Broadway revues using the name...
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    death, London, where her roles included the title role in a production by Jacob Adler of Abraham Goldfaden's Shulamith; she was also in Goldfaden's ill-fated...
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    (1870–1938), lawyer and judge Jacob J. Shubert (1879–1963), theater owner and operator, director, producer Lee Shubert (1871–1953), theater owner and...
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    renamed in 2005 after Bernard B. Jacobs (1916–1996), former president of the Shubert Organization. The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre is at 242 West 45th Street...
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  • Blackwood succeeded Fern Shubert when she left to run for North Carolina Senate. He decided not to run for another term in 2010. Jacob Curtis Blackwood Jr...
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    Lee and Jacob J. Shubert, who were the city's most powerful theater owners and producers in the 20th century, both had offices overlooking Shubert Alley...
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    closed on November 9 of the same year. The show was produced by Lee and Jacob J. Shubert. The production featured an early appearance of Fred Astaire (with...
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    stage debut with a Gilbert and Sullivan touring company produced by Jacob J. Shubert, playing twelve cities in the US and Canada, in seven different Gilbert...
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    Booth Theatre (category Shubert Organization)
    of the 20th century. After the death of Sam S. Shubert in 1905, his brothers Lee and Jacob J. Shubert expanded their theatrical operations significantly...
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  • book by Harry Clarke. Produced by Lee Shubert and Jacob J. Shubert, the production opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre where it ran from August 30...
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    140 performances, closing on October 21, 1916. It was directed by Jacob J. Shubert and J. C. Huffman and choreographed by Allan K. Foster. The popular song...
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  • Gerald Schoenfeld (category Shubert Organization)
    After Adolph Lund's death at age 49 on January 1, 1957, Jacob J. Shubert, the surviving Shubert brother, hired Schoenfeld to represent him and his interests...
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  • 161 performances. Produced by brothers Lee and Jacob J. Shubert, the production was staged by William J. Wilson and used costumes designed by Melville...
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  • Sam S., and Jacob J. Shubert over the next four and a half years; some of which he also choreographed. Other works he directed for the Shubert family on...
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    Cana". While visiting Europe in early 1924, theater owner and producer Jacob J. Shubert secured the rights to adapt the play to English, and hired Gladys Unger...
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  • It was directed by Frank Smithson and produced by brothers Lee and Jacob J. Shubert. Dietz, Dan (2022). "The Lancers". The Complete Book of 1900s Broadway...
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    Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (category Shubert Organization)
    Herbert J. Krapp and was built for the Shubert brothers. The Schoenfeld Theatre is named for Gerald Schoenfeld, longtime president of the Shubert Organization...
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    of the character Filumena Marturano in the play of the same name. Jacob J. Shubert, 84, Polish-born American theatrical entrepreneur An important Islamic...
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    (1901-1974), artist. Lee Shubert (1871-1953), theatrical producer Sam S. Shubert (1878-1905), theatrical producer Jacob J. Shubert (1879-1963), theatrical...
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    theme song was "Bye Bye Blackbird". A bitter dispute with Shubert theatre magnate, Jacob J. Shubert, caused Price by the late 1920s to give up show business...
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