Forks on the road of a life in music and theater
Richard Rodgers recalls the pivotal fork at age 24 when persistent failure followed early Broadway success with Hart. He left a physician father’s hopes, pursued vaudeville and a charity Garrick Gaieties project that launched Rodgers and Hart, altering his career trajectory and his view of success.
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Richard Rodgers
Lorenz Hart
Lew Fields
Weber and Fields
Romeo
Casino Theater
Columbia University
Larry Hart
Columbia
Sigmund Romberg
Institute of Musical Arts
Julliard
Shubert
Benjamin Kaye
Theater Guild
Garrick Gaieties
Sterling Holloway
Libby Holman
Lee Strasberg
Philip Loch
Herbert Fields
Harold Clurman
Garrick Theater
Robert Benchley
Alexander Woollcott
Guild
Rodgers and Hart
Larry
Guild Theater
Sanity hearing opens for farm owner in Topeka case
Ort Weber a 62 year old Riley County farmer faces a sanity hearing after opposing government condemnation of Turtle Creek Reservoir land. Dr H Ivor Jones testifies Weber suffers paranoid schizophrenia and should be confined. Weber rejects a 159,835 dollar award for 730 acres claiming 365,000 dollars. Legal action began 1960 after officials said Weber ordered crews off land at gunpoint and resisted arrest during stake removal.
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Topeka
Kan
Ort Weber
Riley County
Turtle Creek
H. Ivor Jones
Topeka State Hospital
Weber
Upholds Rider Conviction In Mississippi Appeal
A 12 man all white jury in Jackson Mississippi convicted Henry Thomas 19 of St Augustine Florida on a breach of peace charge in the first appeal trial of a convicted Freedom Rider. The jury deliberated 45 minutes. Thomas a Negro student at Howard University had appealed his earlier City Court conviction and was fined 200 dollars.
Desegregation Protester Given Stiff Sentence in Jackson
A Jackson judge imposed a four month jail term on a teenager tied to a desegregation protest that aimed to desegregate a bus and train terminal. The sentence, by Judge Russel Moore, surpassed the earlier City penalties and followed a $200 fine with a 60 day suspended jail term. The defendant arrived in Jackson last May 24 as part of early Freedom Rider activity.
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Russel Moore
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