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Palmer, Bissell B.
100th Division Field Artillery. Organ solos: "Finger Fling"; "Finger Boo­gie"; "Muy Loco"; "Tango De La Noche"; "Glissamba." Organ instruc­tion books: Modern Rhythm Patterns; Spinet Drawbar Registrations. Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Page, Nathaniel Clifford, composer, conductor, music editor; b. San Fran­cisco, Calif., Oct. 26, 1866. ASCAP 1940. Educ: public and private schools; studied theory Dr. Edgar Stillman Kelley. Became member Manuscript Soc, wrote music for mu­sical comedies and incidental music for plays, The Cat and the Cherub; The Ghetto; The Moonlight Blossom (all produced in London); A Japanese Nightingale, etc. Taught orchestration Columbia Univ. 1920-28. Since 1905 music editor music publishing houses. Member Natl. Assn. of American Composers and Conductors, Art Alli­ance of Philadelphia. Works: operas, The First Lieutenant; Villiers, Car-lotta; 7/xdis; four choral works, sym­phonic works; many arrangements for voices, orchestra, and band. Home: 1730 Delancy Place, Philadelphia, Pa.
Paisley, William Merrell (Bill Pais­ley), composer; b. Hamburg, Ark,, Aug. 6, 1903. ASCAP 1941. Educ: Univ. of Ark., Bachelor of Arts, 1926; music with private teachers and Univ. of Arkansas School of Music. Director of music library for N.B.C., New York. Songs: "Razorback Rootin Song"; "An Easter Story"; "Just Like You"; "Beautiful Dreams"; "Write Home to Mother"; "Razorback Pep Song"; "La Carumba"; "I Sing"; "Dust on Your Picture"; "Once I Heard a Song"; "In Old Rincon"; "Do Ya S'Pose?"; "How Do I Know?" Home: 200 W. 55 St., New York 19, N.Y.
Paley, Herman, composer, publisher, educator, radio and motion-picture executive; b. Moscow, Russia, April 5, 1879. ASCAP 1914 (charter mem-
ber). To U.S. 1881. Educ.: New York public and high schools; Coll. of City of New York, Bachelor of Arts, 1902. Postgraduate courses in music and composition under Edward Mac-Dowell at Columbia Univ.; piano at New York Cons, under Alexander Lambert and Jacob Danielson; har­mony and theory under Edward Kilenyi; continued piano studies under Carl Hambitzer. After two years teaching New York high schools, staff composer with various music pub­lishers and operated publishing com­panies. World War I, organized own entertainment unit, fifty players who toured Europe playing army camps. World War II, directed musical shows, revues, Stage Door Canteen, New York. Under contract major motion picture studio, Hollywood, as talent scout and composer 1930-32. Radio executive New York 1933-45. Songs. "Billy (When I Walk I Always Walk With Billy)"; "Cheer Up Mary"; "Outside"; "The Whisper Song"; "And Then"; "Sympathy"; "Keep On Smiling", "Won't You Fondle Me"; "Angel Eyes"; "My Little Kangaroo"; "When It's Nighttime Down in Bur­gundy"; "Sweetest Girl in Monterey"; "Golden Sands of Waikiki"; "Sweet Little Buttercup"; "Havana"; "So Many People"; "Today I Am a Fa­ther"; "White Violets"; "No Place to Hide"; "Hold My Hand"; "With a Quarter in My Pocket and a Hole In Mv Shoe"; "My Mother's Eyes"; "Come Back to Arizona"; "What Good is Water When You're Dry?" Home: 305 W. 72 St., New York 23, N.Y.
Palmer, Bissell B., composer, author; b. New York, N.Y., Feb. 4, 1889. ASCAP 1946. World War I, Capt. Division Headquarters 27th Division, A.E.F. Wrote one-act operetta The Unfinished Reverie. Works: "Head on My Pillow"; "I Do"; "One God"; "The Golden Rule"; "Be the Good Lord Willing"; "Today is Mine"; "Little