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Wild Rose. Arthur Hammerstein's annual operetta floats along on Rudolf Friml's melodies to merited success. Wild Rose and One Little Kingdom, especially, belong at the top of the day's popular music. The play, of course, is laid in a, mythical kingdom, wherefore the princess fights the inevitable fight to reconcile love and duty, with the usual sad results; her U. S. lover acquits himself as he might be expected to before a U. S. audience. Thin comedy is compensated for by Desiree Ellinger, Joseph Santley, and sprightly dancers. But above all, there...
Married. Elaine Hammerstein, fluffy cinema actress, daughter of Manhattan producer Arthur Hammerstein, to one J. Walter Keyes, insurance commissioner; at Los Angeles...
...made their owners mighty. In August, 1919, a great man died in Manhattan, was given pompous Jewish burial from the Temple Emanuel. He had his monument of stone. Last week his son announced that he would build another memorial, one more worthy of his father. The son is Arthur Hammerstein, famed Manhattan theatrical producer, son of Oscar, famed impresario. He will erect a "Temple of Music," 15 stories high, to be used for light operas and musical shows "of a distinctive type." It will be at the corner of Broadway and 53rd St., with a seating capacity...
...vogue now for courageous wives to carry on with the work laid aside by eminent husbands. Last week Mrs. Oscar Hammerstein, widow of the impresario, announced that she would attempt to fulfill her husband's "most cherished wish," would bring to the U. S. next fall a complete French ensemble to produce grand and light opera, would present first in Manhattan, then in other important cities, several French novelties which have been given lately in Paris and Monte Carlo in addition to such standard works as Carmen, Louise, Salome, Thais, Faust, Manon, Zaza, Le Jongleur de Notre Dame, Romeo...
...horse race; when a supercilious, teasable "Oyster Bay runt" called Teddy Roosevelt told him he was shortsighted and gave him one of his own thick eye-lenses; when he gouged "Bound to rise!" on a shingled steeple, counterfeited tickets to Barnum's circus, made cigar-box labels for Oscar Hammerstein and an aluminum fan for Mrs. Astor...