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Ringle, Dave
Cons, of Music (scholarship); Univ. of Vienna. Studied violin with Bach-reich and Crun. Violinist Imperial Opera House and Vienna Phil. Orch. Violinist Mozart Festival, Salzburg, 1904; Bayreuth Wagner Festspiel. To U.S. 1907. Concertmaster Manhattan Opera Company, New York 1907-11. Conductor Klaw & Erlanger pro­duction Lehar's Eva, 1912. Concert-master, conductor Century Opera Company, New York 1915. Managing director Rialto, Rivoli and Criterion Theaters, New York 1919-25. Direc­tor music Hollywood studio 1928-30. Works: Merry Martyr, operetta; Chopin Ballet (perf. Vienna Imperial Opera House 1903); Symphonic Epos; Dramatic Overture and Balkan Rhap­sody, two suites for orch.; Etchings of New York; Children's Suite; American Festival Overture; musical comedy, Betty Be Good. Also songs: violin pieces, waltzes, marches, and motion-picture scores. Address: Estate, % A3CAP.
Riley, Mike, composer, orchestra di­rector, radio, theater and dance-hall attraction; b. Fall River, Mass., Jan. 5, 1904. ASCAP 1940. Songs: "The Music Goes Round and Round"; "Not Enough"; "I'm Gonna Clap My Hands"; "There's Something in the Wind"; "Lookm for Love"; "Hey, Hey Your Cares Away"; "Ooooh Boom'; "It Looks Like a Cruller Doughnut"; "No Nothin"; "Laughing Through Tears." Home: North Hollywood, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Rines, Joseph, composer, author, mu­sic director, radio and recording artist, radio producer and director; b. Boston, Mass., Oct. 1, 1902. ASCAP 1942. From 1921 in radio, starting as entertainer. Leader, own orchestra; musical director of Yankee Network, New England; W.M.C.A., New York and Blue Network. Radio producer and director Abie's Irish Rose; Judy Canova; The Andrews Sisters. Home: 721 N. Rodeo Dr., Beverly Hills, Calif.
Ringle, Dave, composer, author, ar­ranger, publisher; b. Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 20, 1894. ASCAP 1922. Educ: Brooklyn public schools; Commercial High School. Mastered several in­struments incl. piano; began com­posing in school days. World War I, Sgt., Third Machine Gun Battalion. Played in vaudeville and appeared in radio. Made many movie short sub­jects. Professional manager and staff writer for popular music publishers. Organized own music publishing busi­ness 1932. Songs: "It's a Long Long Way Back Home"; "Everything About You Tells Me That You're Irish"; "Wabash Blues"; "There'll Be Some Changes Made"; "Memory Lane"; "Blue Eyes"; "Roll on Mississippi Roll On"; "Raggin the Scales"; "Washing Dishes With My Sweetie"; "Alabamy Home"; "Don't Say Good-Bye"; "Caro­lina Moon"; "Sailing on the Robert E. Lee"; "Around the Clock with New
Riley, James Whitcomb, author, poet; b. Greenfield, Ind., Oct. 7, 1849; d. Indianapolis, Ind., July 22, 1916. ASCAP 1939. Began contributing to Indiana newspapers 1873, left school at sixteen to become editor of Greenfield newspaper. With Indian­apolis Journal 1877-85. Poems in Hoosier dialect became internationally famous. Elected to American Acad, of Arts and Letters and honored by Yale, Honorary Master of Arts 1902; Wabash, Doctor of Letters, 1903; Univ. of Pa., Doctor of Letters, 1904; Indiana Univ., Doctor of Laws, 1907. Among poems set to music are: "The Raggedy Man"; "When the Frost is on the Punkin"; "Little Orphant Annie"; "Uncle Sidney"; "A Life Lesson"; "Old Trundle Bed"; "Song of the Road"; "There is Ever a Song Somewhere"; "The Pixy People"; "Prayer Perfect." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.