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Show MANAGER PALMER ! DIES OF APOPLEXY NEW YORK, -March S. A. M. Palmer, ' the (theatrical manager, who was stricken Monday with apoplexy, died yesterday In a hospital. Mr. Palmer was for years the most prominent theatrical manager In America. He was 61 years of sge. Mr. Palmer was a native of Connecticut. - For ten years, beginning In 1872, he was manager of Union Square theater, and afterward of Madison Square theater and Palmer's theater. . -. - He was a founder and for fourteen years president of the Actors' Fund of . America, and one of the founders and See-presidents of the Players' club of this city. Lately he had been manager for Richard Mansfield. |