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Lieurance, Thurlow
producer and director of television programs; also writer of special ma­terial. Songs: "Say It After Me"; "Honey is Sweet on Me"; "That's My Idea of Heaven"; "Satin On the Moon"; "World Weary"; "Love Is Gone"; "Eileen"; "Lobby Number." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Lief, Max, author, reporter, columnist, dramatic critic, scenarist; b. New York, N.Y., Feb. 22, 1899. ASCAP 1931. Educ: New York Univ., Bache­lor of Science 1921. Reporter, column­ist, dramatic editor, New York Daily News 1921-30. Contributed verse, short stories to Saturday Evening Post. Scenarist, currently writing songs, screen plays, Hollywood. Musical pro­ductions: Pleasure Bound; Green-wich Village Follies; Luckee Girl; Shoot the Works; IIey Nonny Nonny; Third Little Show; Tattle Tales; Earl Carroll's Vanities. Plays: Two for To­night; Champagne for Everybody. Songs for musical productions. "How Long Will It Last?"; "HI Putcha Pitcha in the Papers"; "Doorstep Baby"; "I Love You and I Like You ; "She's Such a Comfort to Me"; "It's in the Stars"; "Hello, Ma"; "I'll Always Remember"; "Such a Lovely Couple"; "The Season Ended"; "Dream of Me." Author of Hangover (novel). Home: Hollywood, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Lief, Nathaniel, author, playwright, dental surgeon; b. New York, N.Y., Jan. 1, 1896; d. New York, N.Y., Dec. 21, 1944. ASCAP 1931. Educ.: New York Univ.; College of Dentistry. As undergraduate became interested in authorship through frequent contri­butions to newspapers and other publications. Although active in prac­tice of dentistry, made writing for stage and songwriting chief avocation. With brother Max (q.v.)9 wrote Pleasure Bound, New York stage pro­duction. World War I, first lieut.,
A.E.F.; World War II, 1938-44, lieut. commander, U.S. Naval Reserve. Mu­sical productions: Greenwich Village Follies (several editions); Earl Car­roll's Vanities; The Little Show; Boom Boom. Musical revue: Shoot tlie Works. Songs: "I'll Putcha Pitcha in the Papers"; "I'm Back in Circulation Again"; "It's in the Stars"; "Dream of Me"; "I'll Always Remember"; "I Love You and I Like You"; "Doorstep Baby." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Lieurance, Thurlow, composer; b. Oskaloosa, Iowa, March 21, 1878. ASCAP 1934. Began musical educa­tion as child and continued through Cincinnati Coll. of Music. While in college began studies of ancient cul­tures of American Indian. For years visited and lived with various Indian tribes. Recorded many songs and tribal dances. Professor at Univ. School of Music, Lincoln, Neb.; Dean of Dept. of Music, Municipal Univ. of Wichita, Kan. 1940. Works chiefly in idiom of American Indian. Songs: "By the Waters of Minnetonka"; "Reverie'; "Blue Mist"; "At Parting"; "Midnight Lagoon"; "Purple Pines"; "Remem­bered"; "Among the Pines"; "To Celia"; "On Cherry Hill"; "And 1 Ain't Got Weary Yet"; "The Good Rain"; "Star of Mine"; "Silver Stream"; "Dying Moon Flower"; "From the Old Homestead"; "In Mirrored Waters"; "Hymn to the Sun God"; "Holiday Pleasures": "The Tulip"; "Irish Spring Song"; "I Wonder Why"; "Came the Dawn"; "If I Hadn't Had You"; "The Sandman"; "Sunbeams"; "A Prayer"; also eleven Song.Cycles. Symphonic works: Colonial Exposition Sketches; Medicine Dance; Scenes Southwest; Prairie Sketches, Suite for grand orch.; Water Moon Maiden, Legend for grand orch. (also transcriptions for violin and piano and piano solo); Fantasia, for violin ana piano; Six Song*,- Fifteen Short Sketches. Home: Witchita, Kansas. Address: c/o ASCAP.