[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 128 (Tuesday, September 17, 1996)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1622]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              HONORING THE LIFE AND WORK OF BERNARD JACOBS

                                 ______
                                 

                          HON. JERROLD NADLER

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                      Tuesday, September 17, 1996

  Mr. NADLER. Mr. Speaker, this country lost a great American on August 
27, when the president of the Shubert Organization, Bernard Jacobs, 
died at the age of 80.
  A native New Yorker, Bernie Jacobs was a graduate of New York 
University and Columbia Law School. For nearly 40 years, working with 
his partner and friend Gerald Schoenfeld, he helped make the Shubert 
Organization a leader in the theatrical life of the Nation, through his 
profound knowledge and understanding of Broadway as an art and a 
business.
  The Shubert Organization owns theaters in Philadelphia, Washington, 
Boston, and Los Angeles, but on Broadway they are preeminent. I am 
proud to say that most of their theaters are in my congressional 
district.
  With Bernie Jacobs' leadership, the Shubert Organization has been 
instrumental in bringing some of the most important American and 
British productions to Broadway, some of which have toured nationally 
and internationally. Bernie Jacobs' championship of the creative 
community was legendary. As producers, the Shubert Organization has 
directly developed and produced shows by many of the leading 
playwrights, directors, and composers of this era.
  Bernie Jacobs' support for the crafts people who serve the industry 
was widely recognized, and his humanity led him to arrange for children 
and students to see Broadway shows for free.
  He was on the faculty of the Columbia School of the Arts and a 
longtime trustee of the Actors' Fund of America, and he received many 
awards from theatrical and charitable institutions.
  Mr. Speaker, it is fitting that this man, who contributed so much of 
lasting value to America, should be remembered and honored.

                          ____________________