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and in music with private teachers. Began music as child cornetist; in 1893, World's Fair Chicago, as prodigy on guitar. Turned to violin before making trombone his solo instrument. Trombone with G. Simon, C. C. Walters; style and phrasing with W. F. Weldon and H. A. Van-dercook. Soloist with Fourth Regiment Band, St. Louis Exposition; assistant band director. Manager and soloist with Liberati Band. Played in showboat, circus and vaudeville acts, and concert stage with own group: "The Smith-Spring-Holmes Orchestral Quintet." Critic and writer for Etude, and many other musical magazines; also writer of human interest stories of musicians. Was "Honorary Legionnaire" and President of International Platform Assoc, at time of death. Pioneer in radio in use of saxophone. Songs: "In the Northland"; "The Gift Supreme"; "Dear Little You"; "Honeysuckle Babe"; "Waiting Time"; "Visions of You"; "One Night When Sorrow Burdened"; "Serenadin S..:ah"; "Sorter Miss You." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Smith, Earl K., composer, author; b. Greenfield, Ind., July 25, 1885. ASCAP 1939. Educ: Greenfield public schools and high school; music with private teachers, and Indianapolis Cons, of Music. Musical director with shows; also in vaudeville several years as pianist. Pianist in various music publishing houses, New York and Chicago. Songs: "O'er the Billowy Sea"; "You Have a Wonderful Way of Doing What You Do"; "An Old Schoolmate of Mine"; "Somewhere Down in Tennessee"; "I'm the Ghost of That Old Man John Barleycorn"; "Lonesome For You"; "Where the Dear Old Rockies Tip-Toe to the Sea"; "You're Like the Young Apple Blossom"; "Till the End of Time"; "Down to the Sea in Ships"; "Where the Old Mill Stream Flows"; "The |
Sentinel's Dream"; "Hot Ashes" (Rag); "A Son of the Golden West." Home: Hollywood, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Smith, Edgar, author, playwright, librettist, actor; b. Brooklyn, N.Y., Dec. 9, 1857; d. Bayside, L.I., Mar. 8, 1938. ASCAP 1914 (charter member). Educ.: Pa. Military Acad. Debut as actor Booth's Theater, New York 1878. Became librettist and occasional actor, New York Casino Company 1886-92; author Weber and Fields extravaganzas 1896-1904. Wrote and adapted some one hundred and sixty plays, travesties: The Stricter and the Fly; Pousse Cafe; Catherine; Barbara Fidgety; Tillie's Nightmare; Old Dutch; The Mimic World; The Sun Dodgers; Hands Up; Robinson Crusoe, Jr.; The Blue Paradise; O, What a Girl; Hotel Topsy Turvy; Dream City; Up and Down Broadway; Mr. Hamlet of Broadway; Stop This Way; Hello Alexander; Red Pepper; The Merry World. Wrote and produced rural drama Home Sweet Home; musical comedy, The Little Host, and operetta Sweet Ann Page. Wrote for motion pictures until death. Songs: "When Two Little Hearts Are One"; "When In Flanders"; "Alone At Last"; "Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl"; "A Great Big Girl Like Mej "Come Back Ma Honey Boy to Me"; "My Neat Little, Sweet Little Girl"; "He Never Smiled Again"; "Tell Us Pretty Ladies"; "What's the Good"; "Ma Blushin' Rosie, Ma Posie Sweet"; "Creole Love Song." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Smith, H. Wakefield, composer, author; b. Eng., Nov. 10, 1865. ASCAP 1926. To U.S. 1893; citizen 1898. Educ.: Cole's Grammar School for Boys; Kensington Art School, London, Eng. Member Boys' Choir, Banham Established Church, Norfolk, Eng. Studied piano with Mary Stamford |
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