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Cole, Robert L.
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Cole, Robert L., composer, author; b. Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, Sept. 7, 1915. ASCAP 1947. Works: "Lirio Blanco"; "Linda Morena"; "No Se Por Que Te Quiero"; "Olvidame"; "Desperacion"; "Sera Mejor." Home: Hato Rey, P.R. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Cole, Ulric, composer, pianist, b. New York, N.Y., Sept. 9, 1905. ASCAP 1941. First musical instruc­tion at five from mother; then with Grunn, Coetschius, Boyle. Fellow­ships at Juilliard Graduate School, with Goldmark and Lhevinne. Ap­pearances as pianist were followed by Chautauqua tour of Midwest at eighteen; later guest artist Cincin­nati Symph. in her Divertimento and the premiere of her Second Piano Concerto; with Frank Black's String Symph. and Gordon String Quartet in performances of her works. Works: Violin Sonata; Quintet for Piano and Strings (Soc. for Publication of Amer­ican Music award); Divertimento for String Orch. and Piano; Metropoli-tones; Purple Shadows; three Vignettes for piano; Valse from Serenade for String Orch. (Tchaikovsky) tran­scribed for two pianos; two Piano Concertos; Nevada, Sunlight Channel, short works for orch.; two Sketches for string orch.; two String Quartets; a Trio; Fantasy Sonata for piano. Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Collins, Will, composer, radio and recording artist; b. New York, N.Y., Oct. 22, 1893. ASCAP 1924. Educ: New York public schools. Music pub­lishers' representative in Midwest since 1917. World War I veteran, U.S. Navy. In radio from 1921. Songs: "Falling"; "You are Easy to Remember"; "After Midnight"; "Little Heart O' Mine"; "It Takes a Little Love to Drive the Blues Away"; "Autumn Time"; "Close Yo' Eyes"; "Laughin at You"; "Come to Me"; "Just for Old Times' Sake"; "When They Made You"; "Oh Joe"; "Night
Shall Be Filled with Music"; "Save a Rainy Day for Me"; "Well Always Have Tonight To Remember"; "Before Long"; "Until Sunrise"; "Sometimes I Wonder." Home: Hotel Statler, De­troit, Mich.
Colum, Padraic, author, poet, dram­atist, lecturer; b. Longford, Ireland, Dec. 8, 1881. ASCAP 1950. To U.S. 1914. Educ: public schools. Member of Acad, of Irish Letters; Natl. In­stitute of Arts and Letters. Author: Wild Earth; A Boy in Eirinn; Three Plays; The King of Ireland's Song; The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy; The Boy Who Knew What the Bird Said, The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes, The Children of Odin; The Boy Apprenticed to an Enchanter, The Golden Fleece, The Children Who Followed the Piper; Castle Conquer, Dramatic Legends (poems); The Island of the Mighty; At the Gateways of the Day (Ha­waiian stories); Creatures (verse); The Fountain of Youth; Balloon, a comedy in four acts; Orpheus (Stories from the Mythologies of the World), Poems; A Half-Day's Ride (a book of essays); The Big Tree of Bunlahy (stories); The Legend of Saint Co-lumba, The Story of Lowry Maen (narrative poem), Where the Winds Never Blew and the Cocks Never Crew; The Frenzied Prince, Anthol­ogy of Irish Verse. Songs: "O Men From the Fields"; "An Old Woman of the Roads"; "Songs from Con-nacht"; "Wild Earth"; "Creatures"; "Old Pastures." Home: 415 Central Park West, New York 25, N.Y.
Comden, Betty, author, musician, actress; b. New York, N.Y., May 3. ASCAP 1945. Educ.: New York Univ.; while student was active with Washington Square Players. Member of "Revuers," quintet, night club and radio entertainers. Musical shows: On the Town, Billion Dollar Baby, Two on the Aisle. Songs: "Hold