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Rotter, Fritz
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Gate"; "You Or No One." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Rotter, Fritz, author; b. Vienna, Aus­tria, March 3, 1900. ASCAP 1941. To U.S. 1937; citizen 1944. Former member A.K.M. (Austrian Performing Right Society). Wrote for musicals and motion pictures in Vienna. Au­thor of book of poetry Me, You, He, She, It; stories for motion pictures and book Fever. Author of plays Let­ters to Lucerne, and Thank You Mr. Quill. Songs: "I Kiss Your Hand Madame"; "Take Me In Your Arms"; "Ninon"; "Spring Came Back to Vienna." Home: Los Angeles, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Rourke, Michael E. (Herbert Reyn­olds), author, b. Manchester, Eng., July 34, 1867; d. New York, N.Y., Aug. 26, 1933. ASCAP 1914 (char­ter member). To U.S. 1901. Educ: from seven to twenty-one in a monas­tery. Became press agent, librettist, and lyric writer. Staff writer for New Yoik music publishers for several years. Contributed musical numbers to various New York productions: The Spring Chicken; Fascinating Flora; The Girl From Utah; Zicgfcld Follies. Songs: "Two Little Blue Little Shoes"; "My Baby's Kiss"; "What's the Use of Dreaming?"; "They Didn't Believe Me"; "On the Beach at Wai-kiki"; "Auf Wiedersehn"; "I Picked a Lemon in the Garden of Love"; "A Dream For Sale"; "Come Back to Connemara"; "Lieber Augustin"; "I Saw the Roses and Remembered You"; "Half a Moon." Address: Es­tate, c/o ASCAP.
Rowan, Irwin, author, playwright, educator, dramatic diicctor, lecturer; b. Roumania, Aug. 21, 1897. ASCAP 1942. Educ.: Coll. of City of New York, Bachelor of Arts. As educator and dramatic director, consultant to New York Board of Education on plays, motion pictures, and pageantry.
Produced for Board two pageants, Sky Lines and Road to Freedom. Wrote and produced pageant: The Open Door, for New York World's Fair. Works: "De Hallelujah Rhythm"; "Whose Gonna Mourn Foi Me?"; "Darky Lullaby"; "Heave Me Into the Wave"; "The Ballad of John Brown"; "Peace Shall Prevail"; "Sons and Daughters of a Land Reborn"; "Manhattan Rhapsody." Also English versions for four albums of Fiench songs. Home: 125S E. 24 St., Biook-lyn 10, N.Y.
Rowell, Glenn, composer, author, radio artist; b. Pontiac, 111., Nov. 2, 1899. ASCAP 1940. Educ.: Pontiac public schools, Strausberger's Cons, of Music, St. Louis, Mo. Started musi­cal career as singer 1916, pianist and arranger for music publishing house, St. Louis, then song demonstrator m Chicago store. Pianist, organist, theater, Chicago 1922-23. Started m radio as musical director of WLS Sta­tion, Chicago 1924. Radio entertainer from 1924. Made recordings of hymns and pop tunes Currently doing tele­vision shows, New York, m addition to radio shows on various networks. Songs: "I Wish You Were Jealous of Me"; "But Do You-1"; "Ne\t Door to Jesus", "Some of Your Sweetness", "Like His Dad"; "At the Husking Bee"; "If You See Margie"; "Little Tired Mother of Mine"; "Tune Jesus into Your Heart"; "Don't You Crv, Little Darlin*"; "Moonlight Lane"; "Your Kids and Mine", "Help the Kid Around the Corner"; "Seven Little Stars and the Man in the Moon"; "Daddy's Lullaby"; "Open the Win­dow of Your Heart"; also Where In the World (But in America), stand­ard selection used in schools. Home: Cincinnati, Ohio. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Royal, Larry, composer, author; b. New York, N.Y., July 6, 1903. ASCAP 1943. Educ.: New York Univ., Bach­elor of Science, 1925. Writer of spe-