Word: rodgers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Love Never Went to College (Hal Kemp; Victor). Bandleader Kemp's vocalists, "The Smoothies," earn their name on this glossiest version of Rodger & Hart's glossiest Too Many Girls tune...
Their first musicomedy was the Columbia Varsity Show of 1920 written in Rodger's freshman year. Soon after Rodgers quit Columbia, and for five years the two of them plugged along, getting a few shots at Broadway, but no lucky ones. 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...
...Francisco News (Scripps-Howard), Cartoonist Douglas Rodger used the biggest political news of the week to make a bum out of the G. O. Pachyderm (see cut), captioned it "Memories...