- Title Pages
- Dedication
- To the Reader
- Acknowledgments
- Illustration
- 1 Max and Frieda
- 2 Love at First Sight
- 3 A Lonely Romeo
- 4 A Couple of College Kids
- 5 Doldrums
- 6 The Blond Beast
- 7 Campfire Days
- 8 The Brief Career of Herbert Richard Lorenz
- 9 Gilding the Guild
- 10 Crest of a Wave
- 11 More Gaieties
- 12 The Great Ziegfeld
- 13 “One Dam Thing After Another”
- 14 A Great Big Beautiful Hit
- 15 A Willing Ham for Dillingbam
- 16 Oscar Hammerstein was Right
- 17 Makers of Melody
- 18 Wall Street Lays an Egg
- 19 Ten Cents a Dance
- 20 Hard Times on Broadway
- 21 Hollywood Bound
- 22 A Folson Story
- 23 Goldwyn's Folly
- 24 Night Madness
- 25 Yesterday's Men
- 26 Billy Rose's Jumbo
- 27 “The Saddest Man I Ever Knew”
- 28 Twice in a Lifetime
- 29 “The Biggest Opening Since the Grand Canyon”
- 30 A Special After-dark Existence
- 31 Musical Comedy Meets Its Masters
- 32 “If It's Good Enough for Shakespeare, …”
- 33 The French Have a Word for It
- 34 Bothered and Bewildered
- 35 I Could Have Been a Genius
- 36 Nobody's Hart
- 37 To Keep My Love Alive
- 38 What Have I Lived For?
- Coda
- Appendix I Lyrics by Hart: A Show-by-show Listing
- Appendix II Lyrics by Hart: An Alphabetical Listing
- Bibliography
- Index I Rodgers and Hart Shows and Movies
- Index II Rodgers and Hart Songs
- Index III General
Gilding the Guild
Gilding the Guild
- Chapter:
- (p.58) 9 Gilding the Guild
- Source:
- Lorenz Hart
- Author(s):
Frederick Nolan
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter introduces Benjamin Kaye, a lawyer and Akron Club member who dabbled in show business; in fact, he had written a song called “Prisms, Plums And Prunes” for Up Stage and Down, six years earlier. Kaye approached and told Richard Rodgers that some of the kids from the Theatre Guild — understudies, bit players, spear carriers all — were putting on a benefit show, and that he'd told them Rodgers was just the fellow to write the songs for them. It was a little too much for Rodgers because the Theatre Guild was well known, and he couldn't resist it, and went into this semi-professional show which turned out to be The Garrick Gaieties and put both Lorenz Hart and Rodgers on their feet.
Keywords: Benjamin Kaye, lawyer, Richard Rodgers, Akron Club, Theatre Guild, songs, The Garrick Gaieties, Lorenz Hart
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- To the Reader
- Acknowledgments
- Illustration
- 1 Max and Frieda
- 2 Love at First Sight
- 3 A Lonely Romeo
- 4 A Couple of College Kids
- 5 Doldrums
- 6 The Blond Beast
- 7 Campfire Days
- 8 The Brief Career of Herbert Richard Lorenz
- 9 Gilding the Guild
- 10 Crest of a Wave
- 11 More Gaieties
- 12 The Great Ziegfeld
- 13 “One Dam Thing After Another”
- 14 A Great Big Beautiful Hit
- 15 A Willing Ham for Dillingbam
- 16 Oscar Hammerstein was Right
- 17 Makers of Melody
- 18 Wall Street Lays an Egg
- 19 Ten Cents a Dance
- 20 Hard Times on Broadway
- 21 Hollywood Bound
- 22 A Folson Story
- 23 Goldwyn's Folly
- 24 Night Madness
- 25 Yesterday's Men
- 26 Billy Rose's Jumbo
- 27 “The Saddest Man I Ever Knew”
- 28 Twice in a Lifetime
- 29 “The Biggest Opening Since the Grand Canyon”
- 30 A Special After-dark Existence
- 31 Musical Comedy Meets Its Masters
- 32 “If It's Good Enough for Shakespeare, …”
- 33 The French Have a Word for It
- 34 Bothered and Bewildered
- 35 I Could Have Been a Genius
- 36 Nobody's Hart
- 37 To Keep My Love Alive
- 38 What Have I Lived For?
- Coda
- Appendix I Lyrics by Hart: A Show-by-show Listing
- Appendix II Lyrics by Hart: An Alphabetical Listing
- Bibliography
- Index I Rodgers and Hart Shows and Movies
- Index II Rodgers and Hart Songs
- Index III General