Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN...
While most of the covers drawn by your staff artists are masterpieces of a sort ... in the case of Oscar Hammerstein it might have been interesting to present him as he appears on the walls of Sardi's in one of Card's caricatures. After all, being done by Card for Sardi's is the epitome of theatrical fame on Broadway to most show people...
...trims that structure superlatively. Jerome Kern's score provides most of the embellishment, with "Make Believe," "Ol' Man River," "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man," "Why Do I Love You," and "Bill" soaring over the footlights in the greatest procession of hits ever to gild a single production. And Oscar Hammerstein II has achieved in his otherwise drooping book a kind of graceful, turn-of-the-century nostalgia that dominates most of the evening...
SILVER KINGS (286 pp.)-Oscar Lewis -Knopf...
That was the beginning of the famed Comstock Lode, but it was 15 years before it really paid off-when it became the royal domain of four shrewd Irishmen. In just one year (1874) each became a multimillionaire. Oscar Lewis, annalist of San Francisco and author of a good book (The Big Four) on the builders of the Central Pacific, has written a thoughtful history of the men who exploited Corn-stock's richest ore. He makes it clear that the West as a whole gained nothing from this strike but a prolonged fever and a legend...