"I fixed it up all right yesterday; it is going your way."
"You are a wonder!" his associates would exclaim.
"Oh no! I just talked to him," was the reply.
Frohman disliked formality. He wanted to go straight to the heart of a thing and have it over with. Somebody once asked him why he did not join the Masonic order. He said:
"I would like to very much if I could just write a check and not bother with all the ceremony."
Although he never spoke of his great power in the profession, occasionally there was a glimpse of how he felt about it as this incident shows:
Once, when Frohman and Paul Potter were coming back from Atlantic City, Potter picked up a theatrical paper and said:
"Shall I read you the theatrical news?"
"No," said Frohman. "I make theatrical news."
In that supreme test of a man's character—his attitude toward money—he shone. Though his enterprises involved millions, Frohman had an extraordinary disregard of money. He felt its power, but he never idolized it. To him it was a means to an end. He summed up his whole attitude one day when he said: