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Of Thee I Sing Of Thee I Sing
Of Thee I Sing (1931), an operetta satire by George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind (book), George Gershwin (music), Ira Gershwin (lyrics). [Music Box Theatre, 441 perf.; Pulitzer Prize.] While campaigners march and sing “Wintergreen for President,” the staff for presidential candidate... Read more
George S Kaufman George S Kaufman
George S. Kaufman , 1889-1961, American dramatist and journalist, b. Pittsburgh as George Kaufman. As a drama critic for various New York newspapers he was influential in raising the standards of criticism in the theater. He collaborated on more than 40 plays, many of them tremendously successful,... Read more
Stage Door Stage Door
Stage Door (1936), a play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. [Music Box Theatre, 159 perf.] While boarding at the Footlights Club, a home for aspiring young actresses, Terry Randall ( Margaret Sullavan) finds her loyalty to the theatre sorely tested. Her fiancé, the radical playwright... Read more
Algonquin round table Algonquin round table
ALGONQUIN ROUND TABLE ALGONQUIN ROUND TABLE was a group of journalists, playwrights, actors, and writers who gathered daily at a special table in the Rose Room at the Algonquin Hotel on West Forty-fourth Street in New York City from 1919 to about 1929. Their witticisms and jokes appeared in... Read more
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Robert Morris Robert Morris
Robert Morris 1734-1806, American merchant, known as the "financier of the American Revolution," and signer of the Declaration of Independence, b. Liverpool, England. Morris emigrated to America in 1747 and was soon apprenticed to the merchant Charles Willing in Philadelphia. He showed an... Read more
Beggar on Horseback Beggar on Horseback
Beggar on Horseback (1924), a play by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. [Broadhurst Theatre, 224 perf.] Neil McRae ( Roland Young) is a talented serious composer who barely makes a living doing hack orchestrations. He is so impractical that his neighbors, Cynthia Mason ( Kay Johnson) and Dr.... Read more
The Late George Apley The Late George Apley
Late George Apley, The, novel by J.P. Marquand, published in 1937 and awarded a Pulitzer Prize. A dramatization by Marquand and George S. Kaufman was produced in 1944 and published in 1945.Mr. Willing, contemporary and friend of the late George Apley, is requested by Apley's son John to describe his... Read more
George Pope Morris George Pope Morris
Morris, George Pope (1802–64),New York journalist and poet, who occupied a minor position in the Knickerbocker Group. He became editor of the New‐York Mirror (1824), and won a temporary reputation for his drama Brier Cliff (1826) and his operetta The Maid of Saxony (1842), but is best... Read more
Edna Ferber Edna Ferber
Edna Ferber 1887-1968, American author, b. Kalamazoo, Mich. Her novels portray the lives of a wide variety of Americans in a vigorous, colorful, and panoramic fashion. Among her best-known novels are So Big (1924, Pulitzer Prize), Show Boat (1926, musical version 1927), Cimarron (1929), ... Read more

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