Hammerstein, Oscar, II

A twentieth-century American playwright and lyricist. Hammerstein wrote the words for a large number of highly successful musicals , especially with Richard Rodgers . He also collaborated with a number of other composers, including Jerome Kern, with whom he wrote the musical Show Boat .

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Then there was theater life in midtown—the original Oscar Hammerstein Theater was there along with the Ziegfeld on 54th.

No one wrote about this subject in a way children could understand better than the famous American lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II.

Oscar Hammerstein, the New York theatre proprietor, sold his first cigar-making machine for $6,000 cash.

Oscar Hammerstein had done some astonishing things at his Victoria Theater.

Lover of opera that he indubitably is, Oscar Hammerstein is by nature a showman, and he understands the psychology of the mob.

Oscar Hammerstein asked Mrs. Cressy how she liked the London audiences.

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