Makers of Melody

An interview with Rodgers and Hart, under the gun for their new show.

How they wrote two-tree of their numbers, in despair, in a heat wave, in Washington, D.C.

“Manhattan”.

“The Girl Friend”.

“The Blue Room”.

Genius, as they say, at work.

Stephen Holden of the New York Times, “a bizarre 1929 two-reel film... absurd, scripted banter.”

The city’s noises cannot dispel

The dreams of a boy and gell...