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...Columbia University to compose musicals full time. For the next few years he got nowhere. Considering himself a failure at 22, he was about to take a job as a salesman for children's underwear when he was asked to write a one-shot benefit for the Theatre Guild. From this emerged The Garrick Gaieties, which ran on Broadway for six months and contained Rodgers' first hit song, Manhattan. He was on his way. Within two years he had five more shows on Broadway, and suddenly was a young lion in New York and London society...
While it was generous of Spielberg to employ so large a percentage of the Screen Actors Guild, the huge cast almost immobilizes the movie. It takes too long to establish who everyone is and to knit all the plot strands together. Even though the film is relentlessly busy - there seems to be a physical gag in every shot - it has little of the director's usual narrative drive. The movie's story does not so much move forward as gradually selfdestruct. At times 1941 drags to a com- plete and stultifying halt: a lengthy dancehall brawl, conceived along...
Both offenses stalled in the chill intermittent rain of the third quarter, with much of the period spent deep in Eliot territory. Running back Scotty Guild, who had reinjured a sore ankle on the first offensive play of the game, returned to the lineup to help Eliot work its way out of trouble...
...months at Hudson Guild Theatre, and then went to Broadway...
...fans, Robson married August Belmont, banker, racing-stable owner, and a multimillionaire nearly twice her age. Thus began a new role as society grande dame and philanthropist. Closest to her heart was the Metropolitan Opera, which she rescued in the lean 1930s by forming the fund-raising Met Opera Guild...