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"You Came Along." Home: Los Angeles, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Heymann, Werner Richard, composer, violinist; b. Koenigsberg, Germany, Feb. 14, 1896. ASCAP 1939. Began study of music at six; violin, harmony, and counterpoint with Paul Juon and Scheinpfiug, in Koenigsberg and Berlin. Worked for four years with foremost German theater directors; then became conductor and musician in Berlin theaters, furnished musical background for silent pictures. Scored twelve European motion pictures. To Hollywood, composer and musical director Hollywood studios; director of pictures My Pal and Wolf. Scored pictures Together Again; Our Hearts Were Young and Gay; Hail the Conquering Hero; Knickerbocker Holiday; Hold That Blonde. Works: Floristan I and Kiki9 operettas; R/iflp-sodische Sinfonie for orch. and baritone; Fruhlings-Notturno for orch.; String Quartet; also songs with orch. Home: Los Angeles, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Heywood, Donald, author, composer; b. Tunapuna, Trinidad, British West Indies, Oct. 24, 1901. ASCAP 1934. Educ: private tutors, then public school, Surrey, England; Middle School; Queens Royal ColL of Trinidad; Bisk Univ.; Northwestern Univ., medical school. Left Northwestern 1923 before completion of medical course to devote time to music, avocation from childhood. Musical education with Chamberlain; harmony and counterpoint with Borowsky, Chicago. Began composing songs while student at Fisk and in Chicago continued work, becoming director of traveling theatrical orchestras. While member of Will Marion Cook's American Syncopated Orch., this group performed his songs "There's a Spirit in My Heart"; "I Never Knew"; "The Land of Roses," and instrumental work, Caribbean Suite, Composed mass, Te |
Deum Laudamus, used for background music for Broadway stage production, Veils, 1925. Wrote music for other shows: Creole Follies Revue; Music Hall Revues; Blackberries; Hot RJiythm; Dumb Luck; How Come?; Born to Swing; Ginger Snaps; North Aint South; Southern Gal; Africana (operetta); Caribbean Cruise; Raisin9 Cain; Black RJiythm; Bottom Land; Top Hat and Tom Toms; The New Look Revue; Cafe au Lait; More Power to You; Follow the Sun; Holiday in Paris; The Wrong God (ballet). Also dramatic work, OV Man Satan, introducing his own vocal orchestra. Wrote songs for feature pictures. Songs: "Home Beyond the River"; "Stop Beating the Drums"; "Come Along, Miss Mandy"; "Creole Gal"; "I Found a Rose"; "Alabama Blues"; "I'm Soft Hearted"; Tve Got to Belong to You"; "111 Do Anything for Love"; "The Crazy Walk"; "Smile"; "Chlorinda"; "The Africana Stomp"; "I'm Coming Virginia"; "Rainy Day"; "Starlit Night." Orchestral rhapsody, Spring is Blue. Organized Negro Theatre Guild 1937-38 under whose auspices produced Rex Ingraham's starring vehicle, How Come Lawd. Won Merrick Award 1948 for greatest contribution of Negro to American music. Home: 140 Bradhurst Ave., New York 30, N.Y.
Heywood, DuBose, author, playwright, poet; b. Charleston, S.C., Aug. 31, 1885; d. Tryon, N.C., July 16, 1940. ASCAP 1936. Educ.: Charleston public schools; hon. degrees Univ. of North. Carolina 1928; ColL of Charleston 1929; Univ. of South Carolina 1930. Member NatL Inst, of Arts and Letters. Author of poems: Carolina Chansons; Skylines and Horizons; Jazbo Brown. Novels: Forgy; Angel; Mamba's Daughters; The Half Pint Flask; Peter Ashley; Lost Morning; Star Spangled Virgin. Plays: Porgy (dramatized from novel; later musical version Porgy and Bess); |
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