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(Or Leave Me Alone)"; "Funny Waltz"; "Don't Take Away My Dreams." Adress: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Anderson, John Murray, author, theatrical and motion picture director and producer; b. St. John's, Newfoundland, Sept. 20, 1886. ASCAP 1950. Educ: Edinburgh Acad., Scotland; Lausanne Univ., Switzerland. Studied dramatic art, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, London. During World War I with American Bureau of Information. Created and directed motion picture King of Jazz, with Paul White-man, 1930. Director at Radio City Music Hall, 1933; and many stage productions New York and London: Greenwich Village Follies, Music Box Revue, What's in a Name, Murray Andersons Almanac, Dearest Enemy, Jumbo, Thumbs Up, The League of Notions, Fanfare. Also, the Great Lakes Exposition, Cleveland, 1937; Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe, N.Y, 1938-50; Ringling Brothers Circus, 1942-51. Songs: "Eileen Avourneen"; "The Girl in the Moon"; "In the Year of Fifty-Fifty"; "Mv Bridal Veil"; "That Reminiscent Melody", "The Valley of Dreams"; "The Last Waltz", "Come to Vienna"; "Some Day When Dreams Come True"; "Marimba"; "A Young Man's Fancy"; "At the Krazy Kat's Ball." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Anderson, Leroy, composer, conductor; b. Cambridge, Mass., June 29, 1908. ASCAP 1947. Educ.: Cambridge High and Latin School, Mass.; Harvard College, Bachelor of Arts 1929; Elkan Naumberg Fellowship, 1929-30; Harvard Univ. Master of Arts 1930. Studied organ with Henry Gideon, Boston; double bass with Gaston Defresne of Boston Symph. Orch. Director, Harvard Univ. Band, 1929-30, 1932-35. Tutor in division of music, Radcliffe Coll., 1930-32. Organist and choirmaster, East Con- |
gregational Church, Milton, Mass.* 1929-35. New York National GuardT 1938-40; U.S. Army 1942-46; Captain, Military Intelligence Service, Washington, 1944-46. Conductor and arranger in Boston and New York 1929-42. Works: "Jazz Pizzicato"; "Jazz Legato"; "Promenade"; "The Synocopated Clock"; "Fiddle-Faddle"; "Chicken Reel"; "Sleigh Ride"; "Ser-enata"; "Ticonderoga"; "Irish Suite"; "Saraband"; "A Trumpeter's Lullaby"; "A Christmas Festival"; "Song of Jupiter"; "Belle of the Ball"; "Plink, Plank, Plunk!"; "Blue Tango"; "Horse and Buggy"; "China Doll"; "The Penny-Whistle Song"; "The Phantom Regiment." Home: Woodbury, Conn. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Anderson, Maxwell, author, playwright; b. Atlantic, Pa., Dec. 15, 1888. ASCAP 1939. Educ.: Univ. of N.D., Bachelor of Arts, 1911; Stanford Univ., Master of Arts, 1914. Taught school in N.D. and Calif.; instructor English Department Stanford, 1914; thence to newspaper work, Grand Forks, N.D. Herald, San Francisco Chronicle, and San Francisco Bulletin until 1918; then editorial writer on New Republic, Evening Globe, and Morning World, New York, until 1924. Member National Institute of Arts and Letters. Plays: White Desert; What Price Glory?; Outside Looking In; Saturdays Children; Gypsy; Gods of the Ligjitning; Elizabeth the Queen; Both Your Houses; Mary of Scotland; Valley Forge; Winterset; The Masque of Kings; The Wingless Victory; High Tor; The Star-Wagon; Knickerbocker Holiday; Key Largo; The Eve of St. Mark. One-act plays, book of poems, You Who Have Dreams; essays, etc. Wrote lyrics for all songs in Knickerbocker Holiday, Broadway success starring Walter Huston, 1938. Songs: "September Song"; "How Can You Tell An American?"; "The One Indispensable Man"; "There's Nowhere to Go But Up"; "The Little Gray |
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