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Dabney, Ford T. |
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Cushing, Catherine C, author, composer, playwright, librettist; b. Mt. Perry, Ohio, April 15. ASCAP 1935. Of literary and musical parentage. Early educ. at home under mother; later, girls' schools in Washington and elsewhere. Wrote first play in senior year, Miss Ananias, produced on Broadway. Other plays: The Real Thing; Widow-by-Proxy; Kitty McKay; Jerry; Pollyanna; Edgar Allan Poe; Master of the Inn. Musical shows: Glorianna; Lassie; Marjor-laine; Topsy and Eva; Bibi-of-the-Boulevards. Songs: "L'Amour, Tou-jours L'Amour"; "Chianti"; "J0*111 and Priseilla"; "When Brown Eyes Looked in Eyes of Blue", "Dilly-Dally-O", "Read Between the Lines." Motion pictures: Prince and the Pauper, Widow-by-Proxy, Topsy and Eva. Author of books for children. Home. New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Cutter, Murray, composer; b. Nice, France, March 15, 1902. ASCAP 1946. Active in Hollywood writing special material for films. Works: Snow Queen (ballet). Home. Los Angeles, Calif. Address: cv ASCAP.
Czerwonky, Richard Rudolph, violinist, composer, conductor; b. Birn- |
baum, Germany, May 23, 1886; d. Chicago, 111., Apr. 16, 1949. ASCAP 1938. U.S. citizen 1915. Studied violin with Florian Zajic, Andreas Moser, and Joseph Joachim, Berlin; Klindworth-Scharwenka Cons, for three years; Royal School of Music. Debut Berlin Philh. Orch. 1906; con-certized extensively in Germany, Sweden, Holland, France, Russia. Became assistant concertmaster Boston Symph. Orch. 1907-08; concertmaster, assistant conductor, and soloist of Minneapolis Symph. Orch. 1909-18; head of violin department Bush Cons, of Music, Chicago 1918-32; founded Bush Cons. Symph. Orch. and directed it; vice-president Chicago Cons. 1932-35. Guest conductor and violin soloist Berlin Symph. Orch. at 25th Artists' Jubilee 1931. Head of violin and orchestra department De Paul Univ. School of Music, Chicago 1935 and conductor of De Paul Univ. Symph. Orch. Conductor Kenosha Symph. Orch., Kenosha, Wis., 1940-49. As soloist toured the U.S. Compositions include a Symphony; Violin Concerto; Carnival of Life (for orch.); Weltschmerz (Grief), symphonic poem; Episode, Symphonic Rhapsody, works for piano, violin, chamber music, voice, etc. Address: Estate, cc ASCAP. |
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Dabney, Ford T., composer, pianist, conductor; b. Washington, D.C., March 15, 1883. ASCAP 1937. Educ.: Armstrong Manual Training School. Early education in music with father, Charles Donch, William Waldecker, and Samuel Fabian. Became professional pianist and, 1904, official court musician for president of Haiti. Returned to U.S. in 1907, organized instrumental quartet for private entertainments. In 1910 became proprietor of large picture and vaudeville house in Washington, D.C. Returned to New York 1913 to organize Tempo |
Club, a talent bureau for Negro entertainers. Closely associated with Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Castle, Dabney created several original dance numbers for their introduction of the tango, maxixe, and other dance novelties. Organized and directed Ziegfeld Midnight Frolics Orch., an off-shoot of the annual Ziegfeld Follies production, and for eight years directed his orchestra for this enterprise. Several seasons at the Palais Royale, Atlantic City. Since 1923 has conducted entertainment bureau, also entertained in Palm Beach, Miami, and Newport. Songs: |
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