Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz first tried, and then Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II attempted, but gave up and Hammerstein told Lerner " Pygmalion had no subplot ".

At the time of the SDP's creation, Owen and Rodgers were sitting Labour Members of Parliament ( MPs ); Jenkins had left Parliament in 1977 to serve as President of the European Commission, while Williams had lost her seat in the 1979 general election.

By 1970, both Parton and Wagoner had grown frustrated by her lack of solo chart success, and Porter had her record Jimmie Rodgers ' " Mule Skinner Blues ", a gimmick that worked.

In 1982, the Brewers were considered heavy favorites to win the AL East, but by June, the team had fallen to 23 – 24 and signs had shown that the players were having problems playing under manager Buck Rodgers.

Rodgers ' first partner, Lorenz Hart, originally planned to collaborate with Rodgers on this piece, but his alcoholism had become out of control, and he was unable to write.

According to The Rodgers and Hammerstein Story by Stanley Green, " For three minutes, on the night of September first, the entire Times Square area in New York City was blacked out in honor of the man who had done so much to light up that particular part of the world.

Wilkes had given the name Navy Archipelago to the San Juan Islands, and named individual islands for distinguished officers of the US Navy, such as Rodgers Island for San Juan Island, and Hull Island for Orcas Island.

* The beginning lines of Rodgers and Hart's 1939 song " Give it Back to the Indians " recount the sale of Manhattan: Old Peter Minuit had nothing to lose when he bought the isle of Manhattan / For twenty-six dollars and a bottle of booze and they threw in the Bronx and Staten / Pete thought that he had the best of the bargin but the poor red man just grinned / And he grunted " ugh!

Rodgers had a " no lingerie in space " policy, which prevented Fisher from wearing a brassiere ; adhesive tape was used in its place.

This new conglomerate was evidently not as successful as CBS had expected, and Steinway was sold in 1985, along with classical and church organ maker Rodgers and flute and piccolo maker Gemeinhardt, to a group of Boston-area investors.

Born into a prosperous ethnic German Jewish family in Arverne, Queens, New York City, Rodgers was the son of Mamie ( Levy ) and Dr. William Abrahams Rodgers, a prominent physician who had changed the family name from Abrahams.

His partnership with Hart having problems because of the lyricist's unreliability and declining health, Rodgers began working with Oscar Hammerstein II, with whom he had previously written a number of songs ( before ever working with Lorenz Hart ).

Mary Martin said that Richard Rodgers composed songs for her for South Pacific, knowing she had a small vocal range, and the songs generally made her look her best.

After Hart's death, Rodgers collaborated with Oscar Hammerstein, with whom earlier that year he had created the hit musical Oklahoma !.

There was a song that Rodgers and Hammerstein had written, called Boys and Girls Like You and I, that Judy did wonderfully, but it slowed up the picture and it was cut out.

On 25 January 1981, MPs Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins, William Rodgers and David Owen made the Limehouse Declaration from Owen's house in Limehouse, which announced the formation of the Council for Social Democracy in opposition to the granting of block votes to the trade unions in the Labour Party to which they had previously belonged.

The Minister for Agriculture, Nationalist SDLP's Bríd Rodgers, remarked that she and Paisley had a " workmanlike " relationship.

In the February 7th 1953 edition, Billboard Magazine reported that Snow's then seventeen year old son, Jimmy Rodgers Snow, had " signed with Victor " ( RCA Victor Records ).

In a reversal of the usual situation, in which American Decca had released original Broadway cast albums of three Rodgers and Hammerstein shows, this was the only film soundtrack album of a Rodgers and Hammerstein show ever released by Decca, while the Broadway cast album had been released by Columbia Masterworks.

The 1961 doo-wop arrangement of the Rodgers and Hart song " Blue Moon " by The Marcels so incensed Rodgers that he wanted to litigate.

Bad Company earned six platinum albums until Rodgers left in 1982 at the height of their fame stating that he wanted to spend time with his young family.

It was revealed in April 2011 that after Jim Morrison's death, the rest of The Doors wanted Rodgers to replace him.

Page and Rodgers originally wanted former Yes drummer Bill Bruford and fretless bassist Pino Palladino in the group ; however, Bruford was contracted to another label and Palladino had tour commitments with singer Paul Young.

Rodgers and Hammerstein were inspired by the way that James Michener described the island, so they wanted to include a song about it when they began work on the musical.

Other movies influenced by or making use of Uncle Tom's Cabin include Dimples ( a 1936 Shirley Temple film ), Uncle Tom's Uncle, ( a 1926 Our Gang episode ), its 1932 remake Spanky, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I ( in which a ballet called " Small House of Uncle Thomas " is performed in traditional Siamese style ), and Gangs of New York ( in which Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis's characters attend an imagined wartime adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin ).

Chic's was formed by Nile Rodgers a self described " street hippie " from late 1960s New York and Martin Dow DJ at from Key West, Florida who pioneered the NYC sound across that state.

On 8 August 2008, Rodgers and original members Mick Ralphs and Simon Kirke reunited as Bad Company to perform a one-night only, sold-out performance at the Seminole Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida.

In the summer of 1907, Cashwell brought the message of Pentecost to evangelists H. G. Rodgers and M. M. Pinson, who carried the message to Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi.

The Musical Theater of Lincoln Center and Richard Rodgers production opened at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, on June 24, 1968 and closed on September 7, 1968 after 89 performances.

Hence Dino Rossi was the clear winner 65 % to Governor Christine Gregoire's 35 %; Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers received 78. 1 % of the county's vote ; Sam Reed received 74. 64 % for Washington state Secretary of State ; and Rob McKenna received 75. 43 % for Attorney General.

Fox also produced Broadway musicals, including the Rodgers and Hammerstein films, beginning with the musical version of State Fair in 1945, and continuing years later with Carousel in 1956, The King and I, and The Sound of Music.

In 1945, a Technicolor musical film version of Phil Stong's novel State Fair, with songs and script by Rodgers and Hammerstein, was released.

Rodgers first entered the British House of Commons at a by-election in 1962, and served in Labour Governments under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, becoming Secretary of State for Transport in Callaghan's Cabinet in 1976.

He also conducted the orchestra for the only musical that Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote specifically for film, State Fair ( 1945 ), and its 1962 remake.

William Rodgers, then Secretary of State for Transport in the Callaghan Labour Government ( 1976 – 1979 ), stated that: " On the best available evidence of accidents in this country-evidence which has not been seriously contested-compulsion could save up to 1000 lives and 10, 000 injuries a year.

Commander Rodgers and Captain Wright were captured by General William B. Taliaferro of the Virginia State Militia, but since Virginia had not yet joined the Confederate States, and was therefore not at war against the United States, Governor John Letcher returned the two officers to Washington.

They lived in England until 1966 when Rodgers secured a post as writer in residence at Pitzer College, Claremont, California and later a lecturing post at California State Polytechnic.

In 1996, she was awarded the Fred Astaire Award for Best Female Dancer for her performance in a Broadway adaptation of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's film State Fair.

** State Fair – Richard Rodgers ( music ) and Oscar Hammerstein II ( lyrics )

Of the new stations the only one to be officially opened was University which the then Secretary of State for Transport William Rodgers MP formally opened on 8th May 1978.

After finishing 9 – 1 in 1969, a season capped off with a massive 69 – 21 win over KU that saw Jayhawk coach Pepper Rodgers showing the peace sign to Devine late in the game and Devine " return half of it ", Missouri faced Penn State University in the 1970 Orange Bowl.

: Fučík Entrance of the Gladiators / Alford Colonel Bogey / Sousa Stars and Stripes Forever / Elgar Pomp & Circumstance No. 4 / Farnon State Occasion / Papineau-Couture Marche de Guillaument / Beethoven Turkish March ( from The Ruins of Athens ) / Schubert Marche Militaire / Johann Strauss I Radetzky March / Healey Willan Centennial March / Delibes Cortège de Bacchus / Tchaikovsky Jurisprudence March / Michael Conway Baker March ( Evocations, Movement II ) / Adaskin March No. 2 / Halvorsen Triumphal Entry of the Boyars / Grieg " March of the Dwarfs " ( from Lyric Suite / Herbert March of the Toys ( from Babes in Toyland ) / Rodgers March of the Siamese Children ( from The King & I ) / John Williams The Imperial March ( from The Empire Strikes Back )

Texas State Highway Spur 366 | Woodall Rodgers Freeway, facing the district

Gilbert, The Zoo, an operetta by Arthur Sullivan and Bolton Rowe, the opera The Boatswain's Mate by Ethel Smyth and two rare musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein-the UK premiere of State Fair which transferred to the West End, and the European premiere of Me and Juliet.

Rodgers also held positions as a trustee with the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts ( now the Dallas Museum of Art ) and as a director of the Dallas Symphony, the State Fair of Texas and the Dallas Public Library.

* James Woodall Rodgers at the Texas State Historical Association