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Rothberg, Bob
chief avocation. Works, instrumental, "Ragging the Waves"; "Waltzing the Bride"; "Waltzing the Scale"; also songs, "Someone Else", "Suppose." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Rosoff, Charles, composer; b. Brook­lyn, N.Y., Mav 1, 1895. ASCAP 1925. Educ.: Brooklyn public schools; piano and harmony with private tutors. Pianist, motion-picture houses and music publishers. Wrote scries of musical shows in Hollywood from 1938; also numerous songs for motion pictures and musical cartoons. Musi­cal show, Judy, Pardon Me Songs: "When You and I Were Seventeen"; "Look in the Looking Glass"; "It's Love"; "On My Honor", "The Most Beautiful Girls"; "journeys End", "I Can Tell Bv the Stars", "Roll Wagon Wheels, Roll On"; "Ride On the Tide of a Song"; "Ride Amigos, Ride"; "In the Merry Month of May", "Wear Your Sunday Smile"; "Di earning My Life Away"; "Just An Old Lo\e Af-fan"; "Corsage of Roses", "Don't Let 'Em Take the Blue and the White Out of the Red, White and Blue"; "At the Husking Bee", "Amexicana" (instrumental). Home Los Angeles, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP
Ross, Jerry, composer, b New Yoik, N.Y., March 9, 1926. ASCAP 1950. Educ : New York public schools. At ten sang in choir, later sang and acted on Yiddish stage, screen, and radio. Studied music Rudolph Schramm at New York Univ., theoiy privately with Michael Fiveisky. Songs. "The Bumpety Bus", "Tears of Happiness", "An Ordinary Broom." Home: 5000 Bi oadway, New York, N Y.
Rossini, Rev. Carlo, composer, organ­ist, choirmaster, priest; b. Osimo, Italy, March 3, 1890. ASCAP 1943. To U.S. 1921; citizen 1929. In 1910, entered Interdiocesan Seminary of Fano, Italy; ordained Catholic priest 1913. Studied Gregorian Chant, or-
gan, and composition under Perosi, Casimiri, Dobici, and Dagnimo, at Pontifical Inst, of Sacred Music, Rome, Master Degree, 1920. World War I, chaplain in Italian Army. As­sociated with Scalabrinian Fathers of St. Charles Borromeo, New York 1921. To Pittsburgh 1923, as organist and choirmaster, Church of Epiphany. Organized 1924, Pittsburgh Poly­phonic Choir of men and boys to specialize in sixteenth-century music. From 1926, organist, choirmaster, Pittsburgh Cathedral. Chairman of Diocesan Music Commission for re-foiming church choirs and church music 1930. Called to Rome by Pope Pius XII in June 1949 to reorganize the Italian Assoc, of St. Cecilia for better Church Music and Church Choirs. Works: fifteen Masses for one, two, three and four voices; ten volumes, Choral Compositions and Arrangements of Liturgical Music for small and large choirs, each volume containing offertories, motets, hymns, and anthems for entire Ecclesiastical Year, ten volumes of Liturgical Music arranged for Reed or Pipe Organ, three textbooks on Gregorian Chant, ior elementary and high schools, and seminalics. Home: Rome, Italy. Ad­dress: X ASCAP.
Rothberg, Bob, composer, author; b. New York, N.Y., Oct. 28, 1901; d. New York, N.Y., Feb. 1, 1938. ASCAP 1936. Educ: New Yoik pub­lic schools 1915; DeWitt Clinton High School, New York 1919; ac­countancy and law, New York Law School, Bachelor of Laws 1928. Music and violin with private instructors. Wrote lyrics for motion picture car­toons. Songs: "And Then They Called It Love"; "Are You Lovable?V'Close to Me"; "Congratulate Me"; "Debu­tante Waltz"; "Did She Ask For Me?"; "I'm Gonna Put You In Your Place"; "It Ain't Right"; "Mickey Mouses Birthday Party"; "Night Wind"; "There's A Silvei Moon On the Golden