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Densmore, John Hopkins |
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Educ: public and high schools, Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, Calif. Began playing piano and concertina at early age; at twelve expert accordionist. Upon graduation became staff musician, Hollywood radio station; guest appearances various radio programs. Became picture and stage attraction and night club attraction. World War II, Radio Production Unit, Air Force. Works: "Zone 28"; "Pin Wheel"; "Soft Shoe Sam"; "Wings Over Mars"; "Frantic for Five"; "Hoop Dee Doo"; "Orange Colored Sky"; "Mr. Honky Tonk"; "Rumpus Room." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Denni, Gwynne, author, actress; b. Green Island, N.Y., May 24, 1882; d. San Pedro, Calif., Dec. 14, 1949. ASCAP 1942. Educ.: Holy Cross School, Troy, N.Y.; voice with Dr. J. Ireland Tucker; piano, Signor Pietro Gonzales; Emma Willard Seminary, Troy, N*Y.; New England Cons, of Music, Boston; voice with C. A. White and Signor Rotili; piano, J. Albert Jeffrey and Carl Faelten; theory, Dr. Louis Elson; harmony, George Chad-wick; dramatics, Samuel R. Kelly; drama, Sargent School, Carnegie Hall, New York. Appeared in Chaperones with Eva Tanguay; Happyland; Filibuster; The Only Girl Wrote special material and sketches for vaudeville and radio. Staged and produced musical comedies. Songs: "Suppose the Rose Were You"; "Mystery of Night"; "Memory's Garden"; "I Gave a Rose to You"; "Forgotten Perfume"; "In a Beautiful Song." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Denni, Lucien, composer, conductor; b. Nancy, France, Dec. 23, 1886; d. Hermosa Beach, Calif., Aug. 20, 1947. ASCAP 1935. Educ.: New York public schools; piano with Philip Breivogel, Leipzig, Germany; harmony and theory with Dr. Andrew |
Brown, Columbia Coll., New York. Vaudeville pianist and musical director. Featured with orchestra in night clubs; guest conductor Kansas City Symph. Orch. Composer and director of "Molly Bawn9n "Don't Tell My Wife," "Oh, Judge;9 "Happy-Go-Lucky" Musical director New Amsterdam Theater; composed scores for motion pictures and cartoons. Works: "The Nation's Awakening"; "The Oceana Roll"; "Memory's Garden"; "The Mystery of Night"; "You're Just a Flower From an Old Bouquet"; "Forgotten Perfumes"; "I Gave a Rose to You." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Denniker, Paul, composer, lyricist, author; b. London, Eng., May 30, 1897. ASCAP 1930. To U.S. 1919. Educ.: Oxford Prep School, Walling-ton, England; pupil and protege of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. In World War I with British Army 1914-19. Wrote shows, songs, edited magazine for troops in France. In U.S. pianist and arranger for own and other orchestras; humorous articles on music; special material for headline acts. Currently song writing and entertaining. Songs: "S'posin'"; "Beside an Open Fireplace"; "Won'tcha?"; "Make-Believe Ballroom"; "Milk-Men's Matinee"; "I'll Never Cry Over You"; "Nero." Home: Brooklyn, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Densmore, John Hopkins, composer; b. Somerville, Mass., August 7, 1880; d. Boston, Mass., Sept. 21, 1943. ASCAP 1941. Educ.: Harvard Univ., Bachelor of Arts 1904, honors in music; elected chorister of the class; post-graduate work Harvard Univ. in music, composition, orchestration, etc.; Harvard Law School, 1904-05. Began original composition in college as composer and conductor of operettas for Hasty Pudding Club, 1904; First Corns Cadets, 1905. Selected by Natl. Federation of Music Clubs as |
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