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Stem, Henry R.
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World"; "Goodbye Boys"; "On the Old FaD River Line"; "When My Baby Smiles at Me"; "Sleepy Valley; "Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis"; "In the Evening by the Moonlight, Dear Louise"; "Down Where the Cotton Blossoms Grow"; "Are You Coming Out Tonight Mary Ann"; "I Wonder if She's Waiting; "Under the An-heuser Bush"; "What Are You Going to Do When the Rent Comes 'Round"; "America Here's My Boy"; "When the Harvest Moon Is Shin­ing"; "Down Where the Swanee River Flows"; "Ain't You Coming out Malinda." Home: Bronx, N.Y. Ad­dress: c/o ASCAP.
Stern, Henry R. (S. R. Henry), com­poser; b. New York, N.Y., June 23, 1874. ASCAP 1921. Educ: New York public schools; Coll. of City of N.Y.; Columbia Univ. (school of mines), Bachelor of Philosophy 1896. Music publishing executive with song-writing as avocation. Conducted play bureau, New York, produced plays and vaudeville sketches. Wrote songs for musical comedy, Little Miss Charity. Honorary life member Vari­ety Club of Texas; wrote official song of "Boys' Ranch" sponsored by Club. Songs: "By Heck"; "Indianola"; "When the Harvest Moon is Shining"; "Now I Know"; "Tears"; "Down in the Old Cherry Orchard"; "Time, Place and the Girl"; "Peter Piper"; "Colored Major,"; "Goodnight Dearie"; "Au Revoir, Sweet Marie"; "Down at the Huskin' Bee"; "Kentucky Dream"; "When It's Moonlight on the Prairie"; "I've Got the Time, I've Got the Place, But It's Hard to Find the Girl"; "A Kiss and A Ring." Home: The Highlander, Dallas 4, Texas.
Stem, Jack, composer, vocal coach; b. New York, N.Y., March 6, 1896. ASCAP 1921. Educ: De Witt Clinton High School, New York. Vaudeville pianist for Eddie Leonard, Frank Fay, Elizabeth Murray. World War I,
U.S. Med. Corp. Wrote special ma­terial for stage, screen and radio. Contact man with various music pub­lishing companies. Wrote motion picture scores for Folies Bergere; The Barrier; Trail Dust; Men Must Fight; Wake Up and Dream; Daniel Boone; One Sunday Afternoon; Sweetheart of the Navy; Little Miss Nobody; Criminal Lawyer; Melody Lane; Cap­tain Calamity; Devil on Horseback. Songs: "I Was Lucky"; "Rhythm of the Rain"; "Singin' a Happy Song"; "Au Revoir l'Amour"; "I Want You to Want Me"; "Let's Get Together Tonight"; "You Didn't Want Me When I Wanted You"; "I'm Not Ashamed of You, Molly"; "I've Been Around"; "I'd Give Everything For You"; "Little Things"; "No One", "Persiana"; "Heaven Is Like Dixie"; "Remember Pearl Harbor"; "When I Come Back to You"; "To Think I Cried Over You"; "My California"; "Smile Away the Blues"; "Tonight, Lover, Tonight"; "Sweetness"; "Song of the Wild"; "Take Me Back to Those Wide Open Spaces"; "So Divine"; "Love Fiesta"; "Oh, Bella Mia"; "Moonlit Paradise"; "Glad Rag"; "Make-Believe Kisses"; "Stop Playin' Tag With My Heart." Home: 638 So. Lucerne Blvd., Los Angeles 5, Calif.
Stevens, David, composer, author, editor, lawyer; b. Fitchburg, Mass., Aug. 12, 1860; d. Boston, Mass., June 29, 1946. ASCAP 1929. Educ.: public schools, private tutors, and Boston Univ. Law School 1881. Af­ter practicing law in Boston and Tacoma, Wash., returned to Boston 1898 to become author. Editorial ex­ecutive Boston music publishing house for thirty-two years. Librettist for Herbert's operetta Madcap Duchess and Hadley's opera Azora. Wrote verses, contributions to maga­zines and newspapers. Books: Lays of a Lazy Dog; Lyrics of Eliza; Bal­lads of Be-Ba-Boes; The Dim Forest;