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Ames (WINTHROP an American)

WINTHROP, an American theatrical manager, born in Massachusetts in 1871. He graduated from Harvard University in 1895. After several years spent in editorial work and in magazine writing, he became manager of the Castle Square Theater in Boston in 1904. He was one of the chief movers in the plan to erect the New Theater in New York City and was its director from 1908 until the enterprise was abandoned in 1911. Afterward he was manager of several theaters in New York City and produced some of the most notable plays seen in recent years.

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