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on professional staff of several firms. Founded, organized and first president of United Radio Entertainers Assn. 1927; published, edited official magazine The Radio Entertainer, under pseudonym of Bruce Morgan. Own booking office (1929-32) for artists of stage, radio and screen; later affiliated with booking offices in Boston and Chicago, booking manager, producer. Produced shows for radio and night clubs in Boston and Chicago. Organized music publishing house 1947, general manager and writer. Songs: "Call Around"; "The Nearest Thing to Chicken is the Feather on Her Hat"; "With Tears in My Eyes I'm Laughing At You"; "Plant a Little Seed of Kindness"; "For Ev'ry Smile on Broadway There's a Tear At Home Sweet Home"; "Nobody Knows But My Pillow and Me"; "He Knows His Groc'ries"; "Jimbo Jambo"; "Throwin Stones at the Sun"; 'Til Keep Warm All Winter"; "There's Gonna Be the Devil To Pay"; "It's Really My Heart That Speaks"; "I'm Having a Lot of Fun Growing Old"; "Ev'ry Thing'U Be All Right"; "It's A Date, It's A Date, It's A Date"; "Get That Old Santa Claus Feelin "; "The Doodlebug Song." Home: 6370 Franklin Ave., Hollywood 28, Calif.
Hughes, Langston, author, poet, playwright; b. Joplin, Mo., Feb. 1, 1902. ASCAP 1936. Educ: Central High School, Cleveland, 1920; Columbia Univ. and Lincoln Univ. 1929. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," his first poem, appeared in a magazine 1921. First prize 1925 from poetry magazine Opportunity, for poem: "The Weary Blues." While he was bus boy in 1926, Vachel Lindsay read three of his poems during lecture in Washington which brought his poetry national attention. Received Palms Intercollegiate Poetry Award, 1927; Harmon Gold Award for Literature, 1931; wrote first play: Mulatto in 1935, produced on Broadway; re- |
ceived Guggenheim Fellowship; Ro-senwald Fellowship, 1940; American Acad. Arts and Letters Grant, 1947. Since* 1926, wrote many articles, stories, and poems in various magazines; translations in European and Oriental languages. Books include poetry: The Weary Blues; The Dream Keeper; Shakespeare in Harlem; and also The Ways of White Folks; short stories; Not Without Laughter, novel; The Big Sea, autobiography; Simple Speaks His Mind, humor. Wrote twelve plays; radio scripts; special material for musical revues; concert settings of his "Freedom Road" and "Songs to the Dark Virgin"; lyrics for musical version, Street Scene; libretti for operas, Troubled Island and The Barrier. Made numerous translations of writers of Cuba and Haiti. Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Hughes, Rupert, author, composer, playwright, editor, scenarist, motion-picture director; b. Lancaster, Mo., Jan. 31, 1872. ASCAP 1924. Of musical parentage. Educ: Adelbert Coll. of Western Reserve Univ., Bachelor of Arts 1892; Yale Univ., Master of Arts; Hon. Doctor of Literature, Western Reserve Univ. Theory and composition with Wilson G. Smith, Cleveland; theory, Edgar Stillman Kelley, New York; counterpoint, Dr. Charles W. Pearce, London (while with Encyclopaedia Bri-tannica Co.). Author of Contemporary American Composers; Love Affairs of Great Musicians; Music Lover's Guide (reissued as Music Lovers Encyclopaedia). Active as motion picture scenarist and director; radio sketch writer and commentator. Author of magazine serials, fiction books, plays, biographies and verse. Books reproduced as motion pictures: The Cup of Fury; Beauty; Within These Walls; Souls for Sale; Destiny; The Thirteenth Commandment; The Patent Leather Kid; Empty Pockets; |
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