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Johnstone, Gordon
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1943. Songs: "I'll Remember April"; "Music and Rhythm"; "Ode to Vic­tory." Home: Miami Beach, Fla. Ad­dress: c/o ASCAP.
Johnstone, Gordon, author, actor, poet; b. Newport, R.I., Sept. 16, 1876; d. New York, N.Y., April 21, 1926. ASCAP 1919. Educ: Newport, R.I., public schools; special courses. Mem­ber Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders, Spanish American War. Later, actor, Broadway productions, music always avocation. Author of book of verse, There Is No Death, and other poems; lyrics for songs: "Creole Song Cycle"; "Samoan Song Cycle"; "The Living God"; "TheNew Christ"; "The Unknown Soldier"; "The Sunshine that Fills My World"; "France Will Not Forget"; "Mavourneen Roamin'"; "Then You'll Know You're Home"; "Laddie O' Mine"; "The Great Awak­ening." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Johnstone, Thomas A., composer, au­thor; b. Evanston, 111., March 3, 1888. ASCAP 1924. Of musical family. Composer of scores for musical com­edies: Up In the Clouds; Molly Darling; Plain Jane; VU Say She Is; When You Smile; The Girl From Childs. Songs: "Up in the Clouds"; "Betsy Ross"; "Happiness"; "Synco­pate"; "Mellow Moon"; "Dear Little Gadabout"; "Plain Jane"; "Wonderful Yesterday"; "Only You"; "When You Smile"; ''Little Miss Nobody"; "Only a Paper Rose." Home: East Orange, N.J. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Johnstone, Will B., author, librettist, cartoonist; b. St. Louis, Mo., March 13, 1881; d. West Palm Beach, Fla., Feb. 6, 1944. ASCAP 1925. Educ.: Evanston, 111., public schools; Chicago Art Inst. For more than thirty years active in newspaper cartoon field, Chicago Inter-Ocean; New York American, New York Evening Jour­nal, New York Evening World, New York World-Telegram. Wrote books
and lyrics for Leave It to Me; Up in the Clouds; Love for Sale; I'll Say She Is; The Ayes Have It; The Love Pirates. Also screen productions: Monkey Business; Horse Feathers. Songs: "Only You"; "Call of the Cosy Little Home"; "Up in the Clouds ; "Your Eyes"; "Happy Recollections"; "Voice of a Soul"; "To Have and. to Hold"; "Read Between the Lines"; "Take It From Me." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Jolson, Al, composer, author, stage, screen, and radio artist; b. Washing­ton, D.C., March 26, 1886; d. San Francisco, Calif., Oct. 23, 1950. ASCAP 1920. Educ.: Washington, D.C., public schools; music with father, a cantor. First stage appear­ance in mob scene of Children of the Ghetto, Herald Square Theater, Oct. 16, 1899. Boy soprano with minstrel shows, traveled with circuses, Dock-stader's Minstrels and then became vaudeville performer. Starred in long series New York musical productions, a pioneer in talking pictures starring in The Jazz Singer, first musical sound picture. Motion pictures based on Jolson's life: The Jolson Story and Jolson Sings Again. Songs: "Avalon"; "California, Here I Come"; "Every Day Can't Be Sunday"; "Me and My Shadow"; "Four Walls"; "'n Everything"; "Old Fashioned Girl"; "Mother, I Still Have YoiT;<"Back in Your Own Back Yard"; "Say No More"; "Anniversary Song"; "All My Love"; "Sonny Boy"; "There's a Rain­bow 'Round My Shoulder." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Jones, Arthur, composer, author; b. Liverpool, Eng., May 6, 1909. ASCAP 1950. To U.S. 1912; citizen 1923. Educ.: public school, High School of Commerce, New York. Music with H. Durig. Wrote verse for newspapers and magazines. Wrote musical revues for Princetown The­ater. Contributor to motion pictures: