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Serly, Tibor
What My Shadow Thinks of Me"; "You're Gonna Fall and Break Your Heart"; "The Clock is Fast"; "Cancel the Flowers"; "Strictly Instrumental"; "The Menace of Venice"; "When the Lights Go On Again All Over the World"; "Small World"; "Till Then"; "Fishing for the Moon"; "And Then It's Heaven"; "Ask Anyone Who Knows"; "The Girl from Jones Beach"; "Because You Love Me"; "To Remind Me of You"; "If Every-day Would be Christmas"; "It All Begins and Ends With You"; "The Lonesomest Whistle." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Selsman, Victor, author, b. New York, N.Y., Feb. 9, 1908. ASCAP 1942. Songs: "Deep South"; "Do You Wanna Jump, Children"; "I Won't Believe It"; "To a Little Boy"; "Old Moses Put Pharaoh in His Place"; "You're Letting the Grass Grow under Your Feet"; "I've Been a Stranger in Mv Father's House." Home: Rego Park, N.Y. Address: *'v ASCAP.
Semos, Murray, composer, author; b. New York, Aug. 3, 1913. ASCAP 1950. Songs: "It's So Nice to Be Nice"; "MM! MM!, Not That"; "Bella Faccia"; "Who Do You Think You're Foolin?"; "Paree"; "Sing Sing Sing (The Singing Polka)"; "Can You Spare a Couple or Minutes"; "Gee, It's Tough to Be a Skunk"; "In Old Montana"; "Busy Line." Home: Bronx, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Sendrey, Albert Richard, composer; b. Chicago, 111., Dec. 26, 1911. ASCAP 1946. Educ.: Leipzig Cons.; Paris Ecole Normale; Trinity Coll. of Music, Heme Bay Coll., London; conducting with Barbirolli, and Albert Coates; harmony with Lovelock; orchestration with Geehl; composition with Richard Strauss. Post graduate work Univ. of S. Calif. Composed first motion pic­ture score for French film, Remous, 1934; orchestrator in motion pictures,
London; to Hollywood 1937 orches­trating, composing and arranging for motion pictures: The Yearling; Under­current; Sea of Grass; A Date With Judy; The Three Musketeers; Duchess of Idaho; The Great Caruso. World War II, civilian work with U.S. Army Ordnance. Works: Sinfonietta (Chi­cago Symph. Award, 1941); Darise dOdalisquc, ballet; English libretto for father's opera, The Turquoise Garden; Essay for Woodwinds; So­nata for Viola; Cello Divertimento; Duo for Horn and Viola; Two Noc­turnes for piano, Second Symphony (Reichhold Award 1948); Toccata and Fugue for Orch.; Orch. tran­scriptions of Ballade (Debussy); Se-villa (Joaquin Turina); Prelude, Aria and Finale (Cesar Franck); Third Symphony; String Quartet; Concer­tino for Piano. Songs: "Love Dreams"; "In An Old English Village"; "Are You Comin' to the Fair"; I'm In a Rare Sort of Mood." Home: Los An­geles, Calif. Address: % M.G.M. Studios, Culver City, Calif.
Serly, Tibor, composer, conductor, violist, educator; b. Lozonc, Hungary, Nov. 25, 1900. ASCAP 1945. Educ.: Von Ende School of Music, New York, Royal Acad, of Music, Budapest 1921-24, with Kodaly, Bartok, Koes-sler, Hubay and Leo Weiner. To U.S. at three, returning to Budapest for advanced studies. Member of viola sections of Cincinnati Symph. Oich. 1927-28, Philadelphia Orch. 1928-36, N.B.C. Symph 1936-37. Guest conductor Philadelphia Orch., Buda­pest Philh., London Symph., Buda­pest Radio Orch. Taught composition and conducting in radio field. In 1948, U.S. representative on Board of Judges or Bartok International Competition, Budapest. Works: Sym­phony No. 1; Fugue for Strings; Strange Story, for mezzo soprano and orch.; Three Songs from Joyce's Chamber Music, for soprano and chamber orch.; Symphony No. 2 in