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sional singer, then turned to song-writing. Songs: "When Your Old Wedding Ring Was New"; "Apple Dumplin'"; "Got Myself in Love"; "So Nice of You"; "Fooled"; "When a King Gives Up Everything for Love"; "Rigamarole"; "Let's Keep America American"; "I'm Afraid to Love You"; "Why?" Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Dowell, Saxie (Horace Kirby Dowell), composer, saxophonist, conductor; b. Raleigh, N.C., May 29, 1904. ASCAP 1941. Musical education with mother, opera singer. Educ: Univ. of North Carolina, student conductor of glee club. All round athlete, refused professional career in baseball for music. An early member of Hal Kemp's orchestra and after fifteen years left Kemp to organize own orchestra. In World War II enlisted Seaman First Class, May, 1942. Bandmaster aboard U.S.S. Franklin from time of its commission thiough disaster in the South Pacific March, 1945; then assigned Navy School of Music in Washington, D.C. On return to civil life re-organized band. Songs: "Three Little Fishies"; "I Don't Care"; "Tonight I'm Thinking of You"; "Tell Her"; "Playmates"; "V for Victory"; "Rugged But Right"; "She Told Him Emphatically No"; "All I've Got is Me"; "Oo-Goo the Wittle Worm"; "Canasta Song"; "Turnabout is Fair Play." Home: 10550 South Park Ave., Chicago 28, 111.
Dowling, Eddie, composer, author, actor, playwright, producer; b. Providence, R.I., Dec. 9, 1895. ASCAP 1927. Educ: Dr. Humane Letters, Mt. Mary Coll., Milwaukee, Wis.; Dr. Arts and Letters, Dublin Univ. A boy soprano and instrumentalist, sang on world tour as choir boy with St. Paul's Cathedral Choir, Providence; played in stock company. Awarded Pulitzer prize and Drama Critics' Award for production of The Time of Your Life, 1940; awarded Drama Critics' Award, |
New York, 1938, for Shadow and Substance; The White Steed, 1939; and Glass Menagerie, 1945. Starred in She Took a Chance; Velvet Lady; Ziegfeld Follies 1918; Ziegfeld Follies 1920; The Girl in the Spotlight; Blaze of Glory; Love's Old Sweet Song; Purple Dust; Our Town. Played and produced Thumbs Up; Here Come the Clowns; The Time of Your Life. Wrote and played in The Girl Behind the Gun; Rainbow Man. Wrote and produced Sidewalks of New York; wrote, produced, and played in Sally, Irene and Mary; Honeymoon Lane. Produced His Double Life; Big Hearted Herbert; Richard II; Shadow and Substance; Madam Capet; The White Steed. Songs: "Sally, Irene and Mary"; "Honeymoon Lane"; "Sidewalks of New York"; "Little White House"; "Harlem"; "Sleegy Valley"; "Little Log Cabin of Dreams"; "Mary Dear"; "Little Pal"; "Row Row With Roosevelt"; "Welcome Home"; "Oh You Rag"; "Time Will Tell"; "Jersey Walk"; "Mother McCree Your Boy Is Coming Home''; "Do You Remember the Days"; "Gee But I'd Like to Be Bad"; "Half a Moon is Better than No Moon"; "High Upon a Housetop"; "Shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupre"; "What Did Dick Tracy Do Today?"; "My Best Girl." Home: Bay-side, L.I. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Downey, Fairfax Davis, author; b. Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov. 28, 1893. ASCAP 1941. Educ.: Hill School, Pa., 1912; Yale, Bachelor of Arts, 1916. On staff Kansas City Star, 1918-21; New York Tribune and Herald Tribune, 1921-27; New York Sun 1927. World War I Sergeant Yale Batteries; Lieutenant 12th F.A., 2nd Div., U.S.A. with A.E.F., Jan. to July 1918; Captain 31st F.A. Silver Star citation Belleau Wood. World War II, Sergeant New York Guard; Major F.A., A.U.S.; service in North Africa; Lt. Col. F.A. Reserve. Author of: A Comic History of Yale; Father's |
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