Hammerstein

[ ham-er-stahyn ]

noun

1. Oscar, 1847?–1919, U.S. theatrical manager, born in Germany.
2. his grandson Oscar II, 1895–1960, U.S. lyricist and librettist.

Example Sentences

The CBS Rodgers and Hammerstein version of Cinderella, screened in 1957, attracted what was then the largest TV audience in history.

From Time

Lyricist E. Y. “Yip” Harburg was as provocative as Hammerstein, though with a much less earnest, more whimsical sensibility.

From The Daily Beast

Hammerstein continued his subtle quest for racial equanimity in Oklahoma!

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

As advertised, Holler is not autobiographical in the same way that the works of Rodgers and Hammerstein are not autobiographical.

From The Daily Beast

When he was 15, Sondheim wrote a musical and took it to Hammerstein, asking him to judge it as if the boy were a professional.

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

Hammerstein was a better horse than Zahringen, and would take Calthea home more rapidly, which entirely suited Mr. Petter.

From Project Gutenberg

Hammerstein now stood on all his feet again, and Miss Calthea earnestly advised Mr. Tippengray to turn him around and drive back.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Tippengray caught at the boy's idea and, exercising all his strength, he turned Hammerstein into the open gateway.

From Project Gutenberg

Her earliest publications were Sappho and Hammerstein, two poems which appeared at Leipzig in 1880.

From Project Gutenberg