Word: richards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Married An Angel (words & music by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart; adapted from the play by John Vaszary; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) sent first-nighters home humming and happy, drew cheers next day from song-starved critics. The show is hardly as good as all that though for the marriage of the season's most ethereal stage bride, Producer Wiman has provided a shimmering trousseau reputed to have cost $125,000; several wardrobefuls of beautiful bright clothes, a pile of lacy, hand-embroidered stage sets by Jo Mielziner, plenty of Rodgers silver tunes...
...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...
Sing Sing Prison officials let it be known that Gertrude Sheldon Whitney had visited her husband, Richard Whitney, three times since his two-week probation ended on April...
...unity. A committee thumbed down "any federation, council or what not that would hinder us in the full and free preaching of the whole counsel of God." In the opening sermon, to which Baptists annually look forward as representing the very best tradition of Southern preaching, Dr. John Richard Sampey, retiring president, said: "An intelligent and convinced Baptist, with the New Testament in his hand, finds little to draw him toward a church which denies the competence of the individual soul to do business with God through Christ Jesus as the sole mediator. We cannot get the consent...
...complete 1938-39 Student Council consists of: JUNIORS--F. Austin Harding, Richard H. Sullivan, Robert L. Green, Charles L. Burwell, James Tobin, J. Spence Harvin, and Amory, Bolton, Boston, Bunker, and Freed; SOPHOMORES--Douglas Mercer, Mason Fernald, Frederick Holdsworth, and Hazlett, Lightbody, and Neal...