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Jason, Will |
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String Orchestra. Member Natl. Inst, of Arts and Letters; honorary fellow Trinity Coll., London; President SPAM (Society for the Publication of American Music); member, Century Assn., New York; Member Phi Beta Kappa; Mu Sigma; Honorary Patron Phi Beta Sorority. Works: Two Symphonies, three Suites; two String Quartets, seven concert orchestral works. Songs: "My Heart is Like a Sweet-toned Lute"; "Peace Be to this Home"; "Fete"; "A Song of the Future"; "Evening"; "Moonlight"; "My Little Pretty One"; "I Am the Vine"; "Spring in Vienna"; "A Spring Song"; "Dearie"; "I Know a Maiden"; "Pride of May"; "Lullaby"; "Phillis"; "O Be Joyful in the Lord"; "Love's Springtide"; "Ballad of Trees and the Master"; "When Thou Commandest"; "I Have Considered the Days of Old"; "A Hush Song"; "Transit"; "Lux Deus." Choral: General William Booth Enters into Heaven; cantata, By the Waters of Babylon; Light of God, cantata. Address: 75 Central Park West, New York 23, N.Y.
Janis, Elsie, actress, author, b. Columbus, Ohio, March 16, 1889. ASCAP 1914 (charter member). During childhood, in vaudeville as "Little Elsie." At sixteen, began starring career with New York production of The Vanderbilt Cup 1906. Debut in London 1914. In World War I, volunteer entertainer for U.S. army troops in Europe. Wrote, produced show with cast of returning soldiers Elsie Janis and Her Gang 1919; debut in Paris musical revue; 1921. Concerts, U.S. 1923-25. Retired from stage 1929. Then entered motion pictures as writer, producer, and supervisor; wrote one of first talking pictures, Close Harmony. Author books: Love Letters of an Actress; A Star for a Night; The Big Show; So Far So Good (autobiography). Songs: "Love, Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere"; "Paramount On Parade"; "Any Time's |
the Time to Fall in Love"; "I'm True to the Navy Now"; "Live and Love Today"; "Molly-O-Mine"; "From the Valley"; "Your Eyes"; "Some Sort of Somebody"; "O, Give Me Time for Tenderness"; "A Little Love." Home: 614 Bedford Dr., Beverly Hills, Calif.
Janssen, Werner, composer, conductor; b. New York, N.Y., June 1, 1900. ASCAP 1922. Educ: American Acad., in Rome (Prix de Rome) 1930-33; theory Frederick S. Converse; piano Arthur Friedheim. Conducted symphony orchestras Berlin, Budapest, Helsingfors, Riga, Rome and Turin. Won citation Finnish Government for conducting Sibelius works. Conductor New York Philh. several weeks during seasons 1934-35-36; conducted Baltimore Symph. Orch. 1938-39; also conducted Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, Portland (Ore.) and Hollywood Bowl Symphony orchs. In 1940 founded Janssen Symph. of Los Angeles. Composer of scores for motion pictures. Works: New Year's Eve in New York, Obsequies of a Saxophone; American Kaleidoscope; Louisiana, symphony; Songs: '*Wis-dom Tooth"; "Without the One You Love"; "At the Fireplace"; "Falling Leaves"; "Sesquicentennial." Home: Hollywood, Calif. Address: P.O. Box 1465, Beverly Hills, Calif.
Jasmyn, Joan, composer, author; b. Hull, Iowa, July 26, 1898. ASCAP 1933. Songs: "Covered Wagon Days"; "The Angel Cake Lady and the Gingerbread Man"; "Rocky Mountain Rose"; "Under the Spell of Your Kiss"; "When Skies are Gray I'm Blue"; "One More Kiss"; "I Got Stuck on the Peppermint Stick and the Stick Got Stuck on Me"; "Sunday Sweetheart." Home: Brooklyn, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Jason, Will, composer, author; b. New York, N.Y., June 23, 1910. ASCAP 1933. Educ.: Peter Stuyvesant |
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