Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...spills. There was Betsy, the flop they did for Ziegfeld. "Ziegfeld should have been a movie producer. He didn't know the first thing about music, yet he constantly butted in on the scores." Ten Cents a Dance, the biggest plum they got out of another Ziegfeld show, Simple Simon, they "practically slipped in over Ziegfeld's head...
Rodgers & Hart enjoy today that special blessing which befalls successful songwriters, of having money rain in from all sides-from royalties on shows, from the sale of shows to Hollywood and foreign countries, from sheet music, from gramophone records, from radio recitals, from having their music played by bands. On shows they get 6% of the gross, which means about $750 a week apiece if a show is a hit. Their biggest money-maker was The Girl Friend which played all over the world. In Hollywood they got $50,000 to $60,000 a movie. And from the American Society...
...newly tabloid pages of the Herex. Staff men spirited them from one hotel room to another, grilled them with the help of a State fire marshal assigned by Governor Horner. Suspect Guerrieri posed for the Herex front page tipping an empty gasoline can over an old towel, to show "How It Was Done." While the Tribune frantically pursued Governor Horner across the State by telephone, the Herex strung out its scoop for two long days, finally delivered its "prisoners" to State's Attorney Courtney's office on the third. Immediately, Kolesiak repudiated his Herex "confession," produced a witness...
...restoring Erich von Stroheim (a top-priced director until a combination of extravagant pictures and his own erratic temperament cut short his Hollywood career) to the screen in a more sympathetic role than those he used to play. Good shot: the moment at the dress rehearsal of a prison show when the first member of the cast tries on a woman's dress...