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The play was first produced by Abe Erlanger and George C. Tyler, staged by Howard Lindsay, and starred Hayes and Otto Kruger. After a tryout in Rochester, New York, the play made its Broadway premiere in February 1922, running through June 1922, for over 125 performances. The play was never revived on Broadway, but was adapted for a 1923 silent ...
Hayes was born in Ladysmith, Wisconsin, and attended elementary school in Normal, Illinois. [1] After receiving a bachelor's degree in piano performance magna cum laude from Baylor University in 1975, [2] he entered a career in composing and arranging music. [3] Hayes moved to Kansas City in the late 1970s. [1]
Frost noted that this was the first time a poem had been read at a presidential inauguration, a trend which would continue. This was an historical milestone because it united poetry with politics. He made allusion to Kennedy's book Profiles in Courage as indicative of the courageous political leader that Kennedy exemplified.
John Russell Hayes (June 23, 1866 – December 29, 1945) was an American poet, librarian, and educator from Pennsylvania. His poetry generally evoked the region's natural landscapes and Quaker heritage. He served as head librarian at Swarthmore College from 1905 to 1927 and later managed the college's Friends Historical Library.
“The Gift Outright” was not originally intended to be read by itself at Kennedy’s inauguration. The poem titled “For John F. Kennedy’s Inauguration” was a poem meant to lead up to “The Gift Outright” to encourage nationalism within the crowd during the new beginnings of the Kennedy Administration.
Mark Hayes may refer to: Mark Hayes (golfer) (1949–2018), American golfer; Mark Hayes (composer) (born 1953), American composer and arranger;
That year he also published a narrative poem, "The Cottage of Pella", in imitation of Montgomery's "The Wanderer of Switzerland". Another strong influence on him was the poet Thomas Campbell. Holland's poem "The Rainbow" (1820), published at the same time as one on the same subject by Campbell, was as frequently anthologised as the latter's. [2]
James Milton Hayes MC (1884, in Ardwick – 1940, in Nice), known as J. Milton Hayes, was an English actor and poet, best known for his 1911 dramatic monologue "The Green Eye of the Yellow God", much parodied by his contemporary Stanley Holloway and later by The Goon Show. He also wrote and performed many other monologues.