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Fenstock, Belle
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Fenstock, Belle, composer, pianist, painter; b. New York, N.Y., April 21, 1914. ASCAP 1939. Music with Joseph Schillinger; painting at Art Students League, New York; and with Joseph Margulies. Staff com­poser publishing houses; guest com­poser Natl. Opera Club of America, Natl. Assn. or American Composers and Conductors, South Shore Music Club of Westport, Conn., Women's City Club and Stage Door Canteen, Washington, D.C. Co-chairman music, Women's City Club, Washing­ton, D.C. Works for piano: Assorted Ladies (suite); Cafe Society; Blar­ney; Glamour Girl; Commuters Rush Hour; Kit Kat Cuban; Romance in Caracas; Blue Orchid; Purple Roses; Harlem Blue Room; American Rhap­sody (for piano and orch.). Songs: "Strangers in the Dark"; "Song of the Refugee." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Fenton, Howard, composer, author; b. New York, N.Y., Feb. 28, 1921. ASCAP 1950. Educ: Wilson School of Music; piano with Madame Fain-stein; New York Univ. Theory at Wilson School and New York Univ.; voice, Madame Farrington Smith; vocal scholarship Maestro Alberto Jeanotte. Dramatic arts Neighbor­hood Playhouse, Henry Street Settle­ment; Feagin School of Dramatic Arts (Madame Ouspenskaya). Singer and writer; actor, announcer, disk-jockey in radio; appeared in Province-town Playhouse, various summer stock companies, and on Broadway. Member of Songwriters Protective Assoc. Works: Birthday in Bethlehem, The Christmas Story in Six Songs with narration; The Marine Corps Reserve Marching Song (official marching song of U.S. Marine Corps Reserve); The First Psalm; "Finni-gan's Wake" (setting of old Irish folk poem); 'The April Hill"; "Prayer of a Waiting World"; "Illusion"; "It Must Have Been the Way You Kissed
Me"; "Distances." Home: 315 W. 57 St., New York, N.Y.
Fetter, Ted, author; b. Ithaca, N.Y., June 10, 1910. ASCAP 1939. Educ: Lawrenceville and George School; Swarthmore Coll., 1928. Early career as actor; began composition 1937. World War II as Captain 1941-46. Wrote for musical shows: The Second Little Show; The Third Little Show; The Show Is On; Naughty Naught; The Fireman's Flame; BUly Rose's Aquacade; Ziegfeld Follies (World's Fair San Francisco); Cabin in the Sky. Songs: "Tired of Love"; "You Might Well Pretend"; "Now"; "It's Easy to Lose"; "It's a Lovely Night on the Hudson River"; "The Nose on Your Face"; "Do My Eyes Deceive Me?"; "Zim Zam Zee"; "Doin' the Waltz"; "The Sun Will Rise Tonight"; "Yours for a Song"; "Taking a Chance on Love"; "Ride Cowboy Ride." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/0 ASCAP.
Feyne, Buddy, author, singer; b. New York, N.Y., June 9, 1912. ASCAP 1940. Educ.: New York and Brooklyn public schools. Soloist with popular orchestras; writes special ma­terial for stage and screen. Songs: "Tuxedo Junction"; "The Shadow Knows"; "Love Had a Preview Last Night"; "Aristocrat of Harlem"; "I'm So Happy I Could Cry"; "M^ Heart Stops"; "Let My Heart Alone'; "Joe's Notion"; "My Treasure"; "Blue Sea"; "Dolimite"; "In a Blue Mood"; "Your Soldier Boy"; "Harlem Stomp"; "Lost in a Dream"; "Jersey Bounce"; "Blue Velvet Walls.' Home: Burbank, Calif. Address: Lewis Publ. Co., 1619 Broadway, New York 19, N.Y.
Fichthorn, Claude L., composer; b. Reading, Pa., June 7, 1885. ASCAP 1948. Educ: Reading High School; Missouri Valley College, A.B., 1916; Mus. Doc. 1948; Columbia Univ., M.A. 1931. Music with Perley Dunn