He was visiting Sir George Alexander at his country house in Kent. Alexander, who is a great dog fancier, asked Frohman to accompany him while he chained up his animals. Frohman watched the performance with great interest. Then he turned to the actor-manager and said: "I have got a lot of dogs out at my country place in America, but I never tie them up." "Why?" asked Alexander. "Let other people tie up the dogs. You let them out and they will always like you." * * * Frohman was known to his friends as a master of epigram. Some of his distinctive sayings are these: "The best seat at a theater is the paid one." "An ounce of imagination is worth a pound of practicality." "The man who makes up his mind to corner things generally gets cornered." "You cannot monopolize theaters while there are bricks and mortar." "When I hear of another theater being built I try to build another author." "No successful theatrical producer ever died rich. He must make money for everybody but himself." "Great stage successes are the plays that take hold of the masses, not the classes." * * * Frohman could always reach the heart of a situation with a pithy phrase or reply. On one of the rare occasions when he attended a public dinner he sat at the Metropolitan Club in New York with a group of men representing a variety of interests. He condemned a certain outrageously immodest Oriental dancer, who, at the moment, was shocking New York. "She must have a nasty mind to dance like that," said Frohman. "Don't be too hard on her," responded a playwright who sat near by. "Consider how young she is." "I deny that she is as young as you imply," retorted Frohman. "But I am bound to admit that she is certainly a _stripling_." * * * Frohman's mind worked with amazing swiftness. Here is an example: At the formation of a London society called the West End Managers Association, Sir Charles Wyndham gave a luncheon at the Hyde Park Hotel to discuss and arrange preliminaries. Most of the London managers were present, including Frohman. There was a discussion as to what should be the entrance fee for each member. Various sums were discussed from L100 downward. Twenty-five pounds seemed to be the most generally accepted, when one manager said: "Why should we not each give one night's receipts." This was discussed for a little while, when Sir Charles said, "What do you say, Frohman?" The American replied, "I would sooner give a night's receipts than L25." There was a short silence, then everybody seemed to remember that he had at that moment a failure at his theater. The humor of it was hailed with a shout of laughter. * * *