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Powell, John
Seven Lively Arts; Kiss Me, Kate; Out of This World. Also for motion-picture productions: Born to Dance; Rosalie; Something to Shout About; Broadway Melody of 1940; You'll Never Get Rich. Songs: "Let's Do It"; "You're the Top"; "I Get a Kick Out of You"; "What Is This Thing Called Love?"; "Blow, Gabriel, Blow"; "You Do Something to Me"; "Begin the Beguine"; "You've Got that Thing"; "Just One of Those Things"; "Love for Sale"; "It's De-Lovely"; "Night and Day"; "You've Got Something"; "Miss Otis Regrets"; "I've Got You Under My Skin"; "Easy to Love"; "Anything Goes"; "In the Still of the Night"; "Rosalie"; "At Long Last Love"; "Who Knows?"; "For No Rhyme or Reason"; "Get Out of Town"; "From Now On"; "My Heart Belongs to Daddy"; "Do I Love You, Do I?"; "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To"; "I Love You"; "Don't Fence Me In"; "Every Time We Say Goodbye"; "Old Fashioned Garden'; "Two Little Babes in the Woods"; "All Through the Night"; "Why Shouldn't I?"; ^friendship"; "I Concentrate on You"; "I've Got My Eyes on You"; "Let's be Buddies'; "Everything I Love"; "I Never Real­ized"; "I'm in Love Again"; "So In Love"; "Wunderbar", "Always True to You In My Fashion"; "I Am Loved." Home: Hotel Waldorf Astoria, New York, N.Y.
Porter, Lew, composer, motion-picture director; b. New York, N.Y., Feb. 4, 1892. ASCAP 1938. Songs: "Wake Up Virginia"; "They Needed an Angel in Heaven"; "Romance in the Rain"; "In Elk Valley"; "Romance in Rio"; "The Little Red Fox"; "Ashes of Roses"; "It's All Over Now"; "My Empty Heart"; "Need You"; "You Told a Lie." Home: Hollywood, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Portnoff, Mischa, composer, pianist, teacher; b. of Russian parents, Ber-
lin, Germany, Aug. 29, 1901. ASCAP 1942. Educ: studied with father at Stern Cons., Berlin; also Royal Acad., Stockholm. Member Swedish Royal Acad. Conducts own studio Brook­lyn. Works: two-piano pieces: Per­petual Motion on a Theme of Brahms; Improvisation After Theme of K. P. E. Bach; Bourree; Brief Flirtation; Senti­mental Parting; Playful Leaves; March of the Imps. Also Variations on "Hatikvoh," for piano; music for Theater Guild's production Merry Wives of Windsor; musical play, The Royal Blush. Song-cycles: From a Bayou Cabin; From Temple and Teepee; and Lodge Fire Tales. Major piano works: Murals; Prelude, Im­provisations et Fuga Libera; Piano Sonata; Also Quartet for piano and strings; suite, Marches for Tomorrow. Home: 354 Ocean Ave., Brooklyn 26, N.Y.
Powell, Brychan B., author; b. Scran-ton, Pa., Aug. 24, 1896. ASCAP 1948. Educ.: Mansfield State Teach­ers College, Pa. Honorary life mem­ber Scranton Junger Maennerchor. President, Dr. D. E. Jones Memorial Musical Scholarship Fund. Served in World War I. Entered newspaper field 1913; managing editor since 1938 of Scranton Tribune and The Scrantonian. Songs: "Song of the Miners"; "Gwilym Gwent"; "Home"; "Forever"; "In the Woods"; "Robin In the Rain." Home: Elmhurst, Mos­cow, R.D. 2, Pa.
Powell, John, composer, pianist; b. Richmond, Va., Sept. 6, 1882. ASCAP 1930. Of musical family. Educ.: Univ. of Virginia, Bachelor of Arts 1910. First teacher, sister, Mrs. J. S. Brockenbrough; piano and harmony, F. C. Hahr, Richmond; piano, Leschetizky, Vienna; com­position, Nawratil, Vienna. In 1907 debut as concert pianist, Berlin, and since has appeared in key cities of Europe and America. Member, Natl.