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cooperation with War Finance Board. Scored and directed many musical performances for some sixty motion pictures earning three Academy Awards: The Great Victor Herbert; Hi Diddle Diddle; Bombolero. Songs: "China Boy"; "Old Kentucky Blues"; "Blue Dawn"; "I Love You, Believe Me, I Love You"; "Lonesome Little Doll"; "Temple Bells"; "My Concertina"; "The Man with the Big Sombrero"; "The Blacksmith Song"; "Fiddle Dee Dee." Also children's book Happy Holidays. Home: 3107 S. Sawtelle Blvd., Los Angeles 34, Calif.
Bowers, Frederick V., composer, stage and radio artist, lecturer, b. Boston, Mass., June 11, 1874. ASCAP 1923. Educ: Boston public schools and New England Cons., piano and voice. Pianist and singer in vaudeville. Formed song writing and vaudeville partnership Charles Hor-witz 1894; wrote for vaudeville and starred in own and other musical shows for many years, incl. Lou Dockstaders' Minstrels, Primrose and West Minstrels, His Bridal Night, Kiss Me Again, Too Many Wives. Entertained Armed Forces in Spanish American War, World War 1 and World War II. Since 1940 singer-speaker luncheon clubs, schools and colleges discussing careers and works of American song writers. Songs: "Lucky Jim"; "Because (I Love You)"; "Always"; "Wait"; "When I Think of You"; "The Pig Got Up And Slowly Walked Away"; "Give Me the Sunny South"; "Wanting You"; "Old Ironsides"; "I'm Looking for a Sweetheart"; "I Can't Forget Your Eyes"; "While the Stars are Shining." Home: Hollywood, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Bowers, Robert Hood, composer; b. Chambersburg, Pa., May 24, 1877; d. New York, Dec. 29, 1941. ASCAP 1914 (charter member). Educ: Franklin and Marshall Coll.; studied |
music with Thomas Whitney Surette, Frederic Grant Gleason, Constantin von Sternberg, in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Chicago. Won gold medal of Chicago Auditorium Cons. 1902. Conductor various recording companies 1916-32; conductor radio stations in N.Y. 1928-34; a recording executive N.B.C.; also Musical Director School of Radio Technique 1935 to death. Conductor Open Air Theater, Memphis, Tenn. Alumni Gold Medal by Franklin and Marshall Coll. for distinguished service. Shows: Rubes and Roses; The Paraders; The Maid and the Mummy; The Vander-bilt Cup; The Hoyden; A Grecian Garden; The Anniversary; The Silver Star; The Wife Tamers; A Certain Party; The Scare Crow; The Antique Girl; California; In the Barracks; The Little Parisienne; The Red Heads; The Water Cure; Omika; Tlie Hasty Wedding; The Lasky Beauties; Garden of Peaches; Models Abroad; A Daughter of the Gods; East Is West; A Lonely Romeo; East of Suez; Hail and Farewell; The Open Road; Old English; Aloma of the South Seas; Oh Ernest; Listen In; The Legionnaires, also incidental music for dramatic plays and motion pictures including "Chinese Lullaby" from East Is West. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Bowles, Paul, composer; b. New York, N.Y., Dec. 30, 1910. ASCAP 1945. Educ.: New York public schools; Univ. of Va.; in music, Aaron Copland, New York and Berlin, Virgil Thomson, Paris. Guggenheim Fellowship 1941. Interest in folk music led him to Spain, North Africa, Antilles, South and Central America. Works: Suite for small orch. Ballets: Yankee Clipper; Pastorela; Sentimental Colloquy. Operas: Denmark Vesey; The Wind Remains (Guggenheim Fellowship). Incidental music for Horse Eats Hat; Dr. Faustus; My Heart's in the Highlands; Love's Old Sweet Song; Twelfth Night; Watch on the |
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