He directed summer stock for the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia (1940), and was assistant stage manager for the New York production of Sons and Soldiers (1943). He served as drama critic for the Chicago Journal of Commerce from 1934 to 1937 and as drama editor for the Manhattan Magazine in 1939. In spite of the show's mild success on broadway, it suffered a loss of 50,000 dollars. In 1929, he co-produced the road production of Bambina. For fifteen years thereafter the collection continued to grow, but its organization deteriorated.īlum's activities as a producer and critic-columnist occupied the years from 1929 to 1940, while he was building his collection. By 1951, his staff could no longer both maintain Blum's collection and help him compile his increasingly popular books on the theater. By 1940, his private collection had become so widely known that he was plagued with requests for information and its size required a full-time staff to maintain it. In 1929 he left his father's firm to pursue a career relating to the theater, becoming a mildly successful producer and columnist but his main interest remained the theater collection he was amassing. At the age of ten, after attending an evening performance of Judy Forgot, with Marie Cahill, he began to keep scrapbooks and collect photographs and clippings. Rather than continuing the business career his father had intended for him, however, he turned to the theater as his field of interest, for it had been the theater which had most fascinated him from childhood.Īs a child, Blum had been taken frequently to the Chicago theaters by his parents. Returning to Chicago he went to work for his father's firm. He attended Shakespeare Grammar School in Chicago, Howe Prep School in Howe, Indiana, and the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. Daniel Blum was born in 1900 in Chicago, Illinois, where his father was president of Federated Metals.
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