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Writings, 1919-1986 (continued)
By Oscar Hammerstein II, 1930-1959 (continued)
"Getting off the pyramid," 1950, Dec. 23 (continued)
From the Saturday Review of Literature.
BOX-FOLDER 95/22 "I want to write the words," 1950
From One World or None!.
BOX-FOLDER 96/4 "If we are the leaders, let us lead," 1951, Apr.
From The Federalist.
BOX-FOLDER 96/6 "More than a dream," 1951, Oct. 20
Published in the Congressional Record, for United Nations Day.
BOX-FOLDER 96/9 Review of Dance to the Piper by Agnes de Mille, for New York Herald Tribune, 1951, Dec.
BOX-FOLDER 96/1 American Theatre Wing Professional Training School, 1951
BOX-FOLDER 96/2 "I came to talk over with you a problem that confronts us all," 1951
BOX-FOLDER 96/3 "If I thought I could write a song about world peace," 1951
For the United World Federalists.
BOX-FOLDER 96/5 "The King and I and we," 1951
BOX-FOLDER 96/7 Narrative on Laurette Taylor by her daughter, 1951
Annotated by Oscar Hammerstein II.
BOX-FOLDER 96/8 "Nobody likes war...," 1951
For the United World Federalists.
BOX-FOLDER 96/10 Statement for an article on Hammerstein's move from Hollywood to Broadway, 1951
BOX-FOLDER 96/11 "Stop crying and go to work," 1951
BOX-FOLDER 96/12 "Hammerstein takes a look at theater--and likes it," 1952, Apr. 6
BOX-FOLDER 96/13 Speech advocating and asking for peace by enforceable world law, 1952, Apr.
BOX-FOLDER 96/14 "Remarks at funeral for Canada Lee," 1952, May 13
BOX-FOLDER 96/15 "Have you a civilized mind?" 1952, June 22
BOX-FOLDER 96/21 "Happy birthday, dear Dick," 1952, June
BOX-FOLDER 96/16 "Eulogy to Gertrude Lawrence," 1952, Sept. 9
BOX-FOLDER 96/26 "What wouldn't I give," 1952, Nov. 17
From Columbia University's Jester of Columbia.
BOX-FOLDER 96/17 "High time," 1952, Dec.
BOX-FOLDER 96/18 Advocating world government for world peace, 1952
BOX-FOLDER 96/19 "The civilized mind--words to live by," 1952
BOX-FOLDER 96/20 Danger to world government from atomic war, 1952
BOX-FOLDER 96/22 Intolerance and Negroes, 1952
BOX-FOLDER 96/23 Liner notes for Romberg album of dinner music, 1952?
BOX-FOLDER 96/24 Miscellaneous writings, 1952
BOX-FOLDER 96/25 On the meaning of Broadway, 1952
BOX-FOLDER 96/27 "Commercial TV: pros and cons," 1953, Nov.
BOX-FOLDER 96/28 On writing the book for a musical play, 1953
BOX-FOLDER 96/29 "Ours is the responsibility," 1953
BOX-FOLDER 97/1 "This I believe," 1954, Apr.
BOX-FOLDER 97/2 Saddest word in the English language, 1954, Aug.
BOX-FOLDER 97/3 Essay on Otto Harbach, 1954, Sept. 25
BOX-FOLDER 97/4 Essay on opera, 1954, Sept. 30
BOX-FOLDER 97/5 "Eulogy for Constance Collier," 1955, Apr. 25
BOX-FOLDER 97/6 On segregation and integration, 1955, June
BOX-FOLDER 97/7 What makes a home, 1955, July
BOX-FOLDER 97/8 What makes a good song, 1955, Oct.
BOX-FOLDER 97/9 "Third category, 1955
BOX-FOLDER 97/10 "Why we waited twelve years," 1955
BOX-FOLDER 97/11 "Dancing in musicals," 1956, Apr.
BOX-FOLDER 97/12 Article on popular music, 1956, Apr.
BOX-FOLDER 97/13 Statement regarding ASCAP-BMI dispute, 1956, Sept. 17
BOX-FOLDER 97/14 Acceptance speech for Alexander Hamilton award, 1956
BOX-FOLDER 97/15 "Do go into the theatre," 1956
BOX-FOLDER 97/16 The independent voter and Stevenson, 1956
BOX-FOLDER 97/17 "A kind of grandfather," 1956
BOX-FOLDER 97/18 On looking forward to the opening of Show Boat at Jones Beach, 1956
BOX-FOLDER 97/19 "The public is taller than we think," 1956
BOX-FOLDER 97/20 "A schoolteacher I remember," 1956
BOX-FOLDER 97/21 "What a child at Christmastime can teach us ..." 1956
BOX-FOLDER 97/22 "ASCAP vs. BMI," 1957, Feb. 23
BOX-FOLDER 97/23 South Pacific album notes, 1957, Nov. 5
BOX-FOLDER 97/24 "Acting and singing on the screen," 1957
BOX-FOLDER 97/25 "Art and mass media," 1957
BOX-FOLDER 97/26 George M. Cohan, 1957
BOX-FOLDER 97/27 "History in the theatre and the theatre in history," 1957
BOX-FOLDER 97/28 "Is the theatre dying," 1957
BOX-FOLDER 97/29 "My 40 years," 1957
BOX-FOLDER 97/30 "Songwriters against a powerful combination," 1957
BOX-FOLDER 97/31-98/2 Speech on disarmament, 1957
(4 folders)
BOX-FOLDER 98/3 "To George Gershwin," 1957
BOX-FOLDER 98/4 "Dear believer in White supremacy," 1958
BOX-FOLDER 98/5 "Progress," 1958
BOX-FOLDER 98/6 "Inertia," 1959, Apr. 29
BOX-FOLDER 98/7 Speech on world peace, 1959, Apr.
BOX-FOLDER 98/8 "Address on being named Father of the Year," 1959, May 28
BOX-FOLDER 98/9 Eulogy to Theresa Helburn, 1959, Aug. 20
BOX-FOLDER 98/10 Eulogy for Eva Kern, 1959, Nov.
BOX-FOLDER 98/11 "Statement of Oscar Hammerstein II in support of H.R. 5921," 1959
BOX-FOLDER 98/12 Collaboration, 195-?
BOX-FOLDER 98/13 "I would like to talk about peace," 195-?
BOX-FOLDER 98/14 Jerome Kern album notes, 195-?
BOX-FOLDER 98/15 "Victory in seventeen days..." 195-?
BOX-FOLDER 98/16 Jerome Kern anecdote, undated
BOX-FOLDER 98/17 "The next president," undated
BOX-FOLDER 98/18 "The stuff good songs are made of," undated
BOX-FOLDER 98/19 "We can be proud of the human race..." undated
BOX-FOLDER 98/20 Miscellaneous writings, undated
BOX-FOLDER 98/21 Speech fragments
BOX-FOLDER 98/22-23 Miscellaneous notes
BOX 159 Miscellaneous notes on 3x5 cards
Handwritten notes pertaining to unidentified shows and writings.
BOX-FOLDER 98/24 Index of articles, speeches, miscellaneous 1911, 1947-1959
BOX 99-101, 135, 152 About Oscar Hammerstein II, 1919-1986
Articles, clippings, interviews and oral histories, press releases, scholarly essays, and tributes. Includes a 1954 Fact Book providing extensive information about Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals. At the end of this subseries is a list of scripts (mostly for radio and television) that feature Hammerstein as a guest.
BOX-FOLDER 99/1 "Oscar Hammerstein II arrives," 1920
BOX-FOLDER 99/2 "Broadway," by Jack Gaver, 1944
BOX-FOLDER 99/3 Vogue article on Jerome Kern (proofs), circa 1944
BOX-FOLDER 99/4 "The careful dreamer," from Time, 1947, Oct. 20
BOX-FOLDER 99/5 "Hammerstein wrote these," 1947
BOX-FOLDER 99/6 "Popular poet," by Earl Wilson, 1950, Mar. 5
BOX-FOLDER 99/7 "George Gershwin Theatre Workshop established," from Bostonia, 1950, Oct.
BOX-FOLDER 99/8 "Rodgers & Hammerstein night," circa 1950
BOX-FOLDER 99/9 New Yorker profile of Oscar Hammerstein II, 1951, Apr. 24
BOX-FOLDER 99/10 "The mood of collaboration (a brief psychoanalytic comment on the musical plays South Pacific and The King and I)," by Daniel E. Schneider, 1951, Apr. 2
BOX-FOLDER 99/11 ASCAP biographical entry, circa 1951
BOX-FOLDER 99/12 "Restatement of the play script in musical theater terms exemplified by Oscar Hammerstein II," by Charles D. Einach, 1953, June
BOX-FOLDER 99/13 "Happy birthday, dear Oscar," by Richard Rodgers, from Town & Country, 1953, July
BOX-FOLDER 100/2 "Rodgers and Hammerstein," by Elliot Norton, 1954, Mar. 31
BOX-FOLDER 99/14-100/1 Fact book concerning the plays of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, 1954, May
(5 folders)
BOX-FOLDER 100/3 "Interview with Oscar Hammerstein II," from Seventeen, 1954, July
BOX-FOLDER 100/4 "How to write lyrics: an interview with Oscar Hammerstein II," circa 1954
BOX-FOLDER 100/5 "The Messrs. R. and H.," from Etude, 1955, Sept.
BOX-FOLDER 100/6 "Youth Wants to Know presents Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II," 1956, Apr. 1
BOX-FOLDER 100/7-8 "Text of an interview with Oscar Hammerstein II," by Arnold Michaelis, 1957
(2 copies)
BOX-FOLDER 100/9 BOX 152 "The Mike Wallace interview with Oscar Hammerstein II," 1958, Mar. 15
Includes a bound volume containing the interview and correspondence sent to OH2 in reaction to the interview.
BOX-FOLDER 100/10 Oscar Hammerstein oral history, 1959, June
BOX-FOLDER 100/11 "A tribute to Oscar Hammerstein II, president of Welcome House," by Pearl S. Buck, from Pennsylvania Traveler, 1959, June
BOX-FOLDER 100/12 "Hammerstein: words by Rodgers," by Richard Rodgers, from New York Times Magazine, 1960
BOX-FOLDER 100/13 "Hammerstein raps writers," by Inez Robb, from The Citizen News, 1960
BOX-FOLDER 100/14 Otto Harbach oral history (portion on Oscar Hammerstein II), 1960
BOX-FOLDER 100/15 Press releases, 1960
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