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Bonelli, Mona Modini
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"Strange and Sweet"; "Prayer of a Waiting World"; "Thy World is a Lamp"; also Birthday in Bethlehem, Christmas story in six songs. Home; 315 W. 57 St., New York, N.Y.
Bonelli, Mona Modini (Mrs. Richard Bonelli); author; b. Los Angeles, Calif., Jan. 18, 1903. ASCAP 1940. Of musical parentage. Educ: Bishop's School, La Jolla, Calif., 1919, and Mills Coll., Calif., Bachelor of Arts 1923, majoring in music (voice and violin) and literature. Advanced voice study with Arthur Alexander. Works: "My Lady Walks in Loveliness"; "Crescent Moon"; "Disenchantment"; "White Swan"; Suite, "Four Songs of the Seasons"; "My Lady Lo-Fu"; "Rapture"; "I Am Love"; "Gifts"; "The Gypsy (El Zingaro)." Home: Crystal Bay, Lake Tahoe, Nevada.
Bonx, Nathan J., composer, author, lawyer; b. Philadelphia, Pa., May 1, 1900; d. Washington, D.C., Oct. 23, 1950. ASCAP 1942. Educ.: Univ. of Pennsylvania Law School. Songs: "Collegiate"; "Collegiate Blues"; "I've Got Some Lovin' to Do"; "I Love the College Girls"; "Bolshevik"; "Sweetest Little Girl"; "Actions Speak Louder than Words"; "If You Are But a Dream"; "You Bring Me Music." Ad­dress: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Boretz, Allen, author, playwright, scenarist; b. New York, N.Y., Aug. 31, 1900. ASCAP 1941. Educ.: Pub­lic School 126, Brooklyn and Eastern District High School, Brooklyn; School of Journalism, New York Univ. three years. Contributor to musicals Garrick Gaieties, 1931; Sweet and Low; Night Cruise, Radio City Music Hall. Co-author of pictures: Up in Arms, 'Bathing Beauty, It Ain't Hay, Princess and the Pirate, Girl from Jones Beach, Two Guys From Texas, It Had to be You, Copacabana, Where There's Life; screen author, My Girl Tisa. Produced plays Room
Service, Off to Buffalo, The Hard Way. Producer (in collaboration) of Ring Around Elizabeth, The Hard Way. Songs: "Love Is Like That"; "I've Got It Again"; "Whistling in the Dark"; "So Shy"; "Dark Clouds"; "You're Something to Write Home About"; "You're Grand"; "Faces." Ad­dress: % Louis Mandel, Suite 2002, 1501 Broadway, New York 18, N.Y.
Borne, Hal, composer, playwright; b. Chicago, 111., Dec. 25, 1911. ASCAP 1942. Educ.: Northwestern Univ., and Univ. of Illinois Music School. For seven years musical director at RKO Studios for Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers; author and composer of special material for stage, screen, and radio. World War II, three years Army Air Forces. Songs: "Brook-lynonga"; "Tenement Symphony"; "Two Left Feet"; "If Life Were All Peaches and Cream"; "The Time of the Hickory Stick"; "Nothin"'; "I Ain't Hep to That Step, But III Dig It"; "So Long Joe"; "Brown Danube"; "Gonna Ride 'n Ride 'n Ride." Home: Los Angeles, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Bornschein, Franz, conductor, com­poser, teacher, musical editor, critic; b. Baltimore, Md., Feb. 10, 1879; d. Baltimore, Md., Tune 8, 1948. ASCAP 1928. Educ.: Baltimore public schools and in music with father and at Pea-body Cons. Pupil of Van Husteyn, Hammerick, Kahmer, and Boise. Wrote prize-winning String Quartet at twenty-one. Conductor Baltimore Music School orch.; choirmaster First Unitarian Church; conductor Balti­more Music Club Chorus. Conductor of orch., teacher of violin, har­mony; and composition at Peabody Cons, from 1905. Works for orch.: Leif Ericson; Southern Night; The Mission Road; The Earth Sings; Ode to the Brave; Moon over Taos; Phan­tom Canoe Suite; Three Persian Poems; Lament; A Cry to Arms;