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Castle; for which wrote songs. Toured England, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and America, as singing star of romantic Irish comedy dramas, under own management and others. Also appeared in leading roles in musical comedies, grand opera, vaudeville. Sang twice at White House for Pres. Calvin Coolidge. Worked as cowboy, telegraph lineman, lumberjack, farmer, hotel owner. Former member and soloist with Seventh Reg. Natl. Guard Band. World War I, entertained servicemen as K. of C. Secretary. World War II, four years overseas with his Shamrock Revue, for U.S.O. Camp Shows. Natl. Pres. Catholic Actors Guild of America, 1930-36; Pres. Songwriters Guild of America, 1936-41; Natl. Exec. Sec. American Guild of Variety Aitists, 1940-42. Wrote several hundred songs, many Western and cowboy songs, short stories, news stories, gossip columns. Songs: "Mother in Ireland"; "I Talked with God", "It's Only a Step from Killarney to Heaven"; "Sunset in Bermuda"; "Lift Up Your Voice in Praise of God"; "The Christlike Way", a folio of Hawaiian songs. Home: Hotel Clermont Inn, Route 9, Clermont, N.Y.
Griffis, Elliot, composer, pianist, teacher; b. Boston, Mass., Jan. 28, 1893. ASCAP 1936. Educ: Ithaca Coll., Yale School of Music (later in School of Art); N.E. Cons, of Music; Mannes School. Teachers incl. Horatio Parker, George W. Chadwick, Stuart Mason. Served in National Army. Taught at Grinnell College, la.; Brooklyn Settlement School; St. Louis Inst, of Music; privately in N.Y. City and Los Angeles. Also Director of Westchester Cons, of Music 1942-45. Received Juilliard Scholarship 1922, Pulitzer Fellowship 1931, and honorary Mus. Doc. from N.Y. College of Music 1937. Soloist and accompanist in radio. Author of several volumes of verse; member of Sinfonia |
and The Bohemians, New York and Los Angeles. Works for orchestra: Paul Bunyan, symphonic poem; Yon Green Mountain, suite; A Persian Fable, ballade; Fantastic Pursuit, symphony for strings. Chamber music: three String Quartets; Suite for Trio; Violin Sonata. For piano: Sonata, Transmutations, (forty-four developments of a five-measure theme); A Set of Eight (poems and studies); Letters from a Maine Farm (album incl. The Music Box, A Forgotten Poem, The Girl on the Farm Below); Tango Espanol; Yellow Rose; Nocturne: Jig. Songs: "The Mountains"; "To the River"; "Goldenhair"; "A Caravan from China Comes", "Eldorado"; "Men are the Devil"; Sunlight and Shadow (a cycle). Home: Los Angeles, Calif. Address: Box 1281, Hollywood, Calif.
Griffith, Corrine, author, artist of stage and screen; b. Texarkana, Texas. ASCAP 1950. Educ.: New Orleans public schools. Began career in silent films, later in sound films. Appeared on stage in Design for Living. Song: "Hail to the Redskins." Home: 1250 31st Street, N.W. Washington, D.C.
Griselle, Thomas, composer; b. Upper Sandusky, Ohio, Jan. 10, 1891. ASCAP 1933. Educ.: Albino Gorno, piano; theory, Louis Victor Saar, at Coll. of Music of Cincinnati, 1911, awarded Springer Gold Medal. Composition, Nadia Boulanger, France, and Arnold Schoenberg. Toured as accompanist and solo pianist with Nora Bayes, Clarence Whitehill, and Alice Nielsen. Taught piano and harmony Muskingum Coll., New Concord, Ohio. Conductor and arranger for phonograph and radio. Works: Two American Sketches (Nocturne and March), First Prize Victor Talking Machine Company $10,000, 1928; Cubist; A Keyboard Symphony for six pianos; songs: "The Cuckoo Clock"; and piano pieces, chamber |
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