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Atteridge, Richard Harold |
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Fleet; Swingtime; Top Hat; Shall We Dance?; Damsel in Distress; Carefree; The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle; Holiday Inn; Ziegfeld Follies; Blue Skies, Easter Parade, Barkleys of Broadway, Three Little Words, Let's Dance, etc. Songs: "Blue Without You"; Tm Building Up to an Awful Let-Down"; "111 Never Let You Go"; "Just One More Dance, Madame"; "Sweet Sorrow"; "Just Like Taking Candy from a Baby'; "If Swing Goes, I Go Too"; "Oh, My Achin Back." Home: Beverly Hills, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Atteridge, Richard Harold, author, playwright; b. Lake Forest, III, July 9, 1886; d. Lynbrook, N.Y., Jan. 15, 1938. ASCAP 1914 (charter member). Educ: Univ. of Chicago, 1907, Ph.B., Phi Beta Kappa. Began play-writing 1905; author many radio programs. Wrote book and lyrics for over forty stage productions including A Winning Mis3; The Honeymoon Express; The Passing Show of 1912, and eleven later annual editions of same, last in 1925; Two Little Brides; The Man with Three Wives; TJie Whirl of the World; Dancing Around; Maid in America; The Peasant Girl; A World of Pleasure; Robinson Crusoe, Jr.; Show of Wonders; Doing Our Bit, Sinbad; Monte Cristo, Jr.; The Little Blue Devil; Make It Snappy; The Rose of Stambotd; The Dancing Girl; Big Boy; Artists and Models; Paris Edition; Gay Paree; Everybody's Welcome. Adapted many stage productions for films. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Auer, Leopold, composer, educator, violin virtuoso; b. Veszprem, Hungary, June 7, 1845; d. Loschwitz, Germany, July 15, 1930. ASCAP 1924. Master of many distinguished violinists. Pupil of Ridley Kohnel at Budapest, Jakob Dont at Vienna Cons., and later of Joseph Joachim. In 1863, con-certmeister of Dusseldorf orch. for |
two years; thence to same post at Hamburg. Then succeeded Henri Wieniawski as Professor of Violin at Imperial Cons., St. Petersburg. Conducted symph. concerts of Imperial Musical Assn. for three seasons, and was violin soloist in courts of three Czars, Alexander II, Alexander III, and Nicholas II, by whom he was knighted in 1894. Complied with traditional custom of serving as soloist (violin) in the ballet of the Russian Imperial Opera, predecessors in this function being Vieuxtemps and Wieniawski. Founded a string quartet at St. Petersburg, of which Charles Davidoff was 'cellist. Came to New York in 1918 with collapse of Old Russia, and expanded his reputation as teacher. U.S. citizen 1926. Was noted for encouraging pupils to give play to their individualities, and often spent much of the lesson time in playing for the pupil. Notables among his pupils are Elman, Heifetz, Zimbalist, Seidel, Achron, Piastro, Milstein. Published works include many original violin compositions. Author of Violin Playing As I Teach It; My Long Life in Music; Violin Masterworks and Their Interpretation. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP. |
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Austin, Gene, composer; vaudeville, radio and recording artist, b. Gainesville, Texas, June 24, 1900. ASCAP 1925. At fifteen left home, saw service in U.S. Army with Mexican Punitive Expedition 1916; then to World War I. Returning, went to school in Baltimore and attended Baltimore Univ. In 1923 singer in two-man act in vaudeville. Made many recordings and sang in radio, stage, and screen. Also appeared in New York stage productions, Broadway Rhapsody, 1933 and Going Places, 1935. Songs:. "Whippoorwill, Go Tell My Honey that I Love Her"; "The Lonesome Road"; "Please Come Back to Me"; "How Come You Do |
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