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...early '405 when bobby-soxers were curling their toes at his boyish glissando. Says he: 'I was weaned on the best popular music ever written. When I was bumming around with Tommy Dorsey and Harry James it was all good. Guys like Mercer and Berlin and Hammerstein were writing their best. In those days a singer was just another guy, and the one-nighters, listening to the band by the hour-this is the experience a singer needs. You learned what it was to be hungry, but you also learned about music...
...their "development of a fresh theatrical form, the musical play" (e.g., Oklahoma!, South Pacific), Composer Richard Rodgers and Librettist Oscar Hammerstein II received doctorates (of humane letters) from the University of Massachusetts. Next day Drs. Rodgers and Hammerstein did education a good turn, endowed Manhattan's famed Juilliard School of Music with a perpetual scholarship to go yearly to a promising young singer...
Comedians were flown in from Hollywood and Florida to do two-and three-minute introductions of the different numbers. Jack Benny had an uneven skit about his troubles in buying a ticket to a Rodgers & Hammerstein hit; Edgar Bergen made only the sketchiest effort at being a ventriloquist in a pair of episodes with Charlie McCarthy and Ed Sullivan; Groucho Marx got the best laughs as a quizmaster cutting Rodgers & Hammerstein down to size...
Busy Sets. The show was conceived and executed in less that 30 days, beginning as a gleam in the eye of Young & Rubicam's Adman Dan Seymour, one-time M.C. of radio & TV's We The People. He sold it first to Oscar Hammerstein, who says: "We thought it was impossible in such a short time, but we took a flyer." Directed and produced by CBS's Ralph Levy, the continuity and casting of the musical numbers was the responsibility of Rodgers and Hammerstein ("But all those complimentary things they said about us, we didn...
...Hammerstein, who would like to get into TV more regularly, spends most of his weekends before his set. "My wife says I'm an indiscriminate viewer. I'm interested even in TV's imperfections. I don't know why they don't simplify their backgrounds-dancers are murdered against all those busy stage sets." But TV will have to wait. Even though-for the first time in eleven years-there is no Rodgers & Hammerstein show on Broadway, both men have full schedules, will spend this summer in Hollywood working on the movie version of Oklahoma...