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music publishing field. Songs: "Take Me Back to Dreamland"; "Oh, How She Can Dance"; "Is It a Sin?"; "Beautiful Mother of Mine"; "Has Anybody Seen My Cat?"; "My Killar-ney Rose"; "Plant a Little Garden in Your Own Back Yard"; "If They Don't Want the Irish in Ireland"; 'Everybody Loves the Irish"; "You Wouldn't Fool a Friend"; "Old Chuck Wagon"; "There's. Something in the Wind"; "When Love Goes By"; "My Pal and Me"; "I've Built My Castles in the Air." Home: 2131 N. Ivar Ave., Hollywood 28, Calif.
Lerner, Alan Jay, author; b. New York, N.Y., Aug. 31, 1918. ASCAP 1945. Educ: Bedales, Hampshire, England; Choate School, Wallingford, Conn.; Harvard Univ., Bachelor of Science 1940. From 1941 radio writer. Author of book and lyrics of The Day Before Spring; WJiat's Up?; Brigadoon; Love Life; Paint Your Wagon. Picture credits: Royal Wedding; An American in Paris. Songs: "Almost Like Being In Love"; "You've Got a Hold On Me"; "You Wash and I'll Dry"; "My Last Love"; "Joshua"; "You Haven't Changed At All"; "The Day Before Spring"; "God's Green World"; "This Is My Holiday"; "A Jug of Wine"; "I Love You This Morning"; "From This Dav On"; "Come to Me, Bend to Me'; "The Heather On the Hill"; "Here I'll Stay"; "Green Up Time"; "This Is the Life"; "The Happiest Day of My Life"; "I Left My Hat in Haiti"; "Too Late Now"; "You're All the World to Me"; "Every Night At Seven"; "Open Your Eyes." Home: Camp Hill Farm, Pomona, N.Y.
Lerner, Sammy (Samuel M.), author; b. Savenni, Rumania, Jan. 28, 1903. ASCAP 1931. To New York 1910. Educ.: Detroit public schools and Central High School; Wayne Univ. Active in college plays; began writing special material for vaudeville per- |
formers, including Sophie Tucker; continued writing while jewelry salesman. Executive music publishing house 1928. Wrote for films and for stage. To London 1936 writing for films and stage musicals; to Hollywood 1938. Member: Dramatists' Guild; executive council, Hollywood Writers Mobilization. Contributed to Stage productions: Greenwich Village Follies; Hello, Paris; Artists and Models; Three's a Crowd; Bizzarities; Thumbs Up; White Horse Inn; Trans-Atlantic Rhythm; Going Greek; Hide and Seek; Swing Is in the Air; My Dear Public. Songs: "Is It True What They Say About Dixie?"; "I'm Popeye, the Sailor Man"; "I Promise You"; "Oh Suzanna, Dust Off That Old Pianna"; "You'll Never Get Up to Heaven That Way"; "Judy"; "I Can Sew a Button"; "The Surest Cure for the Blues"; "But Me No Buts"; "Lord and Lady Whoozis." Home: 1857 N. Wilson Place, Hollywood 28, Calif.
Leslie, Edgar, author, publisher; b. Stamford, Conn., Dec. 31, 1885. ASCAP 1914 (charter member; director 1931-41, 1947------). Educ.: public schools and Cooper Union, New York. Founded Songwriters' Protective Assn. in 1931 with George W. Meyer and Billy Rose. Began writing career as parodist and material writer for comedians Nat Wills, Billy B. Van, Joe Welch, and Lew Dockstader. Wrote "Sadie Salome (Go Home)"; "Tough Guy Levi"; "Italian Rag"; "Put It on, Take It off," with George W. Meyer; and "When Ragtime Rosie Ragged the Rosary," with Lewis F. Muir. Then "Get Out and Get Under"; "When Grownup Ladies Act Like Babies"; "Hello, Hawaii, How Are You?"; "Dirty Hands, Dirty Face"; "Don't You Remember California in September"; "America, I Love You"; Take Your Girlie to the Movies"; "Come on, Papa"; "Oh What a Pal Was Mary." Entered publishing field. Wrote "Rose of the Rio Grande"; "Pasadena"; "By |
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