Bernard Sobel was an American

United States

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 playwright, a drama critic for the New York Mirror

New York Mirror

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, an author of a number of books on theatre and theatre history, and a publicist

Publicist

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. Among his clients were Florenz Ziegfeld

Florenz Ziegfeld

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, Charles Dillingham, A. L. Erlanger, and Lee

Lee Shubert

Levi "Lee" Shubert was a Polish-born American theatre owner/operator and producer and the oldest of seven siblings of the theatrical Shubert family....

, Sam

Sam S. Shubert

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, and Jacob

Jacob J. Shubert

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 Shubert.

A collection of Bernard Sobel's papers from 1923-1962 is in the possession of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research of the University of Wisconsin–Madison

University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Plays

• Jennie Knows (1913)
• Mrs. Bompton's Dinner Party (1913)
• There's Always A Reason (1913)