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Role du Point en Musique. Works: Indian Suite; Ballade; Andante Soste-nuto; various Etudes; Theme Varie in collaboration with Paderewski for string quartet; three duets for violin and cello; passacaglia for viola. Also songs, piano pieces and many arrangements and transcriptions. Home: Lutry, Switzerland. Address. c/o ASCAP.
Pola, Edward, composer author, radio director; b. New York, N.Y., June 23, 1907. ASCAP 1941. Educ: public schools, U.S. English Prep School, Stuyvesant High School; London Univ. (Mechanical Engineering). Writer of revues, musical comedies and scores for motion pictures, London. Also actor in films. Music and dialogue B.B.C., London; director radio shows N.B.C. Songs: "Marching Along Together", "I Was in the Mood"; "I Raised My Hat", "One Night in Napolf, Tve Got a Note", "The Girl with the Dreamy Eyes"; "The Gentleman Obviously Doesn't Believe"; "Sleep My Baby Sleep"; "She'll Always Hemember"; "Till the Lights of London Shine Again"; "Carramba, It's the Samba"; "You Broke Your Promise", "I Said My Pajamas"; "Quicksilver", "I Didn't Slip, I Wasn't Pushed, I Fell"; "I've Forgotten You." Home. 13949 Weddington St., Van Nuvs, Calif.
Poll, Ruth, author, b. New York, N.Y., June 10, 1899. ASCAP 1948. Songs: "I'm a Military Man"; "Weary Little Fellow"; "I'd Love to Make Love to You"; "Those Things Money Can't Buy"; "I'm Wearing a New Shade of Blues"; "It Was So Good While It Lasted"; "If Yesterday Could Only Be Tomorrow." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Polla, W. C, composer; b. New York, N.Y., Aug. 12, 1876; d. New York, N.Y., Nov. 4, 1939. ASCAP 1926. Educ: piano and organ, Chicago |
Cons.; New York College of Music. Arranger-in-chief for leading orchestras on networks. At sixteen conducted symphony; also musical director and conductor of many musical productions of Victor Herbert and others. Active in New York as conductor and arranger in radio. Wrote and conducted America My Homeland, especially for Sousa Memorial program. Other works: "Dancing Tambourine"; "The Troubadour"; "When Evening Shadows Fall", "Dear Heart"; "Mary O'Brien"; "The Melody that Made You Mine"; "Some Day"; "San Toy"; "Carmencita"; "Old Mother Hubbard"; "The Gondolier"; "Baby"; "Symphonic Idyl"; "Pilgrimage to Mecca." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP. |
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Pollack, Lew, composer, author; b. New York, N.Y., June 16, 1895; d. Hollywood, Calif., Jan. 18, 1946. ASCAP 1920. Educ.: public schools; De Witt Clinton High School, New York. At fourteen joined Walter Dam-rosch choral organization as boy soprano. Largely self-educated in music, mastered violin and piano at early age. While still in school was relief pianist motion picture theaters in neighborhood. Professional pianist, wrote special material for vaudeville artists; appeared in own act on major vaudeville circuits, played and sang own songs. Pioneer in writing theme songs for films in silent picture era. For ten years before his death, active in studios in Hollywood writing music for motion pictures. Songs: "That's a-Plenty"; "Charmaine"; "Diane"; "Angela Mia"; "Miss Annabelle Lee"; "Some Sweet Day"; "In the Middle of a Kiss"; "Sing Baby, Sing"; "Jungle Town"; "Hello! Good-Bye!"; "Everybody Wants the Key to My Cellar"; "Buddha"; "Cairo"; "Weep No More My Mammy"; "Two Cigarettes In the Dark"; "The Toy Trumpet." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP. |
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