Ernest Kronshage was a local drama critic and editor associated with the Milwaukee
Free Press and Wisconsin News who was an active supporter of the Milwaukee theater
community, and had previously been involved with the Pabst English Stock Company in
1907. His brother, Theodore Kronshage, Jr., was a well-known lawyer closely tied to
the La Follettes and the Progressive movement in Wisconsin.
The Modern Players was a theater company organized by Ernest Kronshage over the
summer of 1917, which performed at the Pabst Theater under the direction of George
Foster Platt of New York.
