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...whom had not spoken to each other for years. Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz composed a song for the occasion ("A critic has a mother, Just like anybody else"). Mary Martin sang I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy with Composer Richard Rodgers at the piano. Oscar Hammerstein II was master of ceremonies. In their boss's honor, Times drama staffers replated the Sunday theater section for a limited edition with every story on the page about Atkinson and carrying his name in the headline. Shy Critic Atkinson was even moved to make the evening...
...point in the evening, a friend sidled up to Bernstein. "Quite a nice little evening," commented Oscar (South Pacific) Hammerstein II. Startled, Bernstein stopped talking. Hammerstein hastily added: "No, it was really memorable." Then the two hugged each other...
...advanced stage machinery in the business. The curtain rose on a magnificent performance of Ponchielli's La Gioconda. "In the future," said one visiting New York critic, "Bostonians will no longer come to New York for opera; instead, New Yorkers will be coming to Boston." But Impresario Oscar Hammerstein, then staging grand opera at his Manhattan Opera House in successful competition with the Metropolitan, made another kind of prophecy. He noted that the hulking red brick and terra-cotta pile at the corner of Huntington Avenue and Opera Place was next door to the Boston Storage Warehouse and suggested...
...opera house became part of the Shubert chain of theaters, accommodated the touring Metropolitan and Chicago Civic companies, ballet, big musical comedies, even prizefights. But the 3,000-seat house, with its huge maintenance costs, did not pay its way, and last week it seemed as though Impresario Hammerstein's prediction would at last come true. Sold by the Shuberts, the Boston Opera would be stripped for probable use as a parking lot or storage warehouse...
17th Century Progress. A brilliantly organized drifter, Ritchard is up at the uncommonly early (for actors) hour of 8 a.m., makes jottings in his "unemotional" diary, breakfasts alone in his elegant West Side apartment, which was decorated for him by Mrs. Oscar Hammerstein II as a sort of tribute to the memory of his late wife. Actress Madge Elliott...