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Yearling ushers will be: Paul Fremont-Smith, Nathaniel H Garrick, Jr., William R. Grosvenor, Jr., and George N. Hurd...
Tackles: Edward R. Browne, John A. Carpenter, George I. Connolly, Jr., Walter H. Faget, Jr., Reginald H. Fitz, Gerard H. Fulham, Thomas Gardiner, Nathan H. Garrick, Jr., William H. Lowe, Vern K. Miller, Edward C. Perkins, John C. Robbins, Jr., Richard C. Row, Frederick J. Sears, Jr., Louis Shemardiak, Julian Simmons, Donald B. Wilson, Gerald Whitman, Jr., William LaCroix, Thomas O'Laughlin, Thomas T. White...
...Then in 1925 the Theatre Guild, wanting some tapestries for its new theatre and a chance to give its understudies a workout, decided to put on an informal little revue, engaged Rodgers to write the music. Hart came in on the lyrics. The show, under the title of the Garrick Gaities, opened May 17, 1925, ran for 211 performances. People hummed Sentimental Me and Manhattan, music publishers enthusiastically bought from Rodgers & Hart the very songs they had sniffed at a year before, and Broadway producers yelled for shows...
...York, The Son of the Sheik went into its second week after drawing nearly $14,000 at the George M. Cohan Theatre. In five other Eastern cities it packed theatres. But the greatest triumph of The Son of the Sheik was at Chicago's Garrick Theatre, where it did more business than any other show in town except Holiday, accompanied by Tommy Dorsey's swing band. Garrick audiences were apparently about evenly divided between middle-aged women and young girls who had heard about Rudy Valentino from their mothers. Wrote one lady patron to the theatre...
Composer Richard Rodgers, 35, and Lyric-Writer Lorenz Hart, 43, are the best-known words-&-music team on Broadway, with 24 shows behind them, including such hits as the two editions of the Garrick Gaieties, A Connecticut Yankee, On Your Toes, Babes in Arms, and the current I'd Rather Be Right. Their collaboration started when they wrote two Columbia Varsity shows (though Hart had already left Columbia), then drew their first salute from Broadway with the first Garrick Gaieties, in which Hart thumbed his nose at the June-moon school of lyrics, introduced such slick rhymes...