Career
Earlier Strine had been a co-manager of the Grand Opera House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was born. Strine had a second career in the newspaper industry, particularly with The Philadelphia Record. Strine left Bernhardt in 1906 to undertake management of the entire cross-county tour of the Conried Metropolitan Opera Company.
The tour ended disastrously after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake with Shrine losing all of his profits.
A few days before the quake, he had been named manager of a proposed new 2000-seat San Francisco theatre, which never materialized due to the earthquake and subsequent fires. He died in 1907 at Boothby Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, a week after unsuccessful surgery for appendicitis.
