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others. To Hollywood 1932, composing and arranging for motion pictures and radio. Picture scores: Over 21, The Impatient Years; Tars and Spars; Tlve Jolson Story; Gallant Journey; Gdda; In Old Oklahoma; Tonight and Every Night; She Wouldn't Say Yes; A Thousand and One Nights. Home: 1015 Larrabee St., Los Angeles 46, Calif.
Skilton, Charles Sanford, composer, author, conductor, educator; b. Northampton, Mass., Aug. 16, 1868; d. Lawrence, Kan., March 12, 1941. ASCAP 1924. Educ.: Yale Univ., Bachelor of Arts 1889; Royal High School for Music, Berlin, 1891-93; composition Bargiel, organ with Albert Heintz. Metropolitan College of Music, New York 1896-97; organ with Harry Rowe Shelley; composition with O. B. Boise and Dudley Buck. Director of Music Salem Acad, and Coll., Winston-Salem, N.C. 1883-96. Director of Music State Normal School, Trenton, N.J. 1898-1903. Dean of School of Fine Arts 1903-15; Professor of organ, theory and history of music, 1903 until death, Univ. of Kansas. Organized Univ. of Kansas Orchestra. President Kansas State Music Teachers Assn, 1914-16. Dean Kansas chapter American Guild of Organists 1913-35. Member Mac-Dowell Colony, Natl. Assn. of American Composers and Conductors, Musical Assn. of England, Native American Composers, American Composers Alliance, Inc., and International Music Society. Doctor of Music Syracuse Univ. 1933. Made study of Indian music on which were based operas Kalopin (1927 awarded David Bispham medal by Amer. Opera Assn.) and The Sun Bride, 1930. Suite Primeval for orch.; American Indian Fantasy for cello and orch.; Three Indian Sketclxes for piano; oratorio, The Guardian Angel; Cantata, Ticonderoga; opera, The Day of Gayomair; orchestra, Overture in E |
Major; String Quartet in B Minor; Handel Suite in E Minor, arr. for orch. Author of Modern Symphonic Forms; "American Indian Music" (article in International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians). Address: Estate, ct'c ASCAP.
Skinner, Frank, composer; b. Mere-dosia, 111., Dec. 31, 1897. ASCAP 1946. Active in Hollywood writing special material for films: It Happened in Kaloha; Gung Ho; The Color of Your Eyes; Head Low; Day by Day. Scores for films: Sons of Frankenstein; House of Seven Gables; Back Street; Saboteur; Destry Rides Again; Three Smart Girls Grow Up. Home: Beverly Hills, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Skylar, Sunny, composer, author, singer, radio and recording artist; b. Brooklyn, N.Y., Oct. 11, 1913. ASCAP 1942. Singer with popular orchestras. Songs: "Fifteen Minute Intermission"; "I Wanna Go Back to Texas"; "Call Me Happy"; "There'll Never Be a Place Like Home"; "A Little Bit South of North Carolina"; "Move It Over"; "Sh! Don't Make a "Noise"; "Besame Mucho"; "Amor"; "Gotta Be This Or That"; "Put That Ring On My Finger"; "Waitm For the Trains to Come In"; "Are These Really Mine?"; "Don't You Remember Me?"; "Atlanta, Ga."; "Hair of Gold"; "You're Breaking My Heart"; "Cry Cry Cry"; "Little Liza Lou." Home: 12707 Landale, North Hollywood, Calif.
Sloane, A. Baldwin, composer; b. Baltimore, Md., Aug. 28, 1872; d. Red Bank, N.J., Feb. 21, 1925. ASCAP 1914 (charter member). Educ: public schools and in music with private tutors. Organized Baltimore "Paint and Powder Club." At nineteen produced his own first operetta. Stage productions: The Wizard of Oz; Excelsior Junior; Jack and the Bean Stalk; A Stranger in New |
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