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Trent, Jo
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Widow Bird"; "Uphill"; "Farewell." Sacred and secular choruses: "Again in Unison We Stand"; "Song's Eter­nity"; "Mount Your Horses.' Many choral arrangements, oratorio: TJw Song of Solomon. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Trent, Jo, composer, author; b. Chi­cago, 111., May 31, 1892. ASCAP 1925. Educ: Columbus, Ohio, public and high schools; Collegiate, Hamp­ton, Va.; Univ. of Pa.; Coll. of City of New York. Professional manager music publishing houses. Staff writer for various film companies; assistant director. Coach and tutor, Hollywood. Scored Broadway musical shows; mo­tion pictures; also music for special performances in radio, television, night clubs, and theaters. After sev­eral years study in tropics, became specialist and author of book on Modern Adaptation of Primitive Tones. Songs: "Muddy Waters"; "I Just Roll Along, Havin' My Ups and Downs"; "Wake Up, Chillun, Wake Up"; "My Kinda Love"; "Because I Feel Low Down"; "Rhythm King"; "Ploddin Along"; "Maybe I'm Wrong Again"; "Here You Come With Love"; "Got a Feelin' For You"; "I Want It Sweet Like You." Operetta: Peaceful Henry. Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Trinkaus, George J., composer, ar­ranger, editor; b. Bridgeport, Conn., April 13, 1878. ASCAP 1914 (charter member). Of musical family. Educ: Bridgeport public schools; Yale Uni­versity. Many years musical editor with music publishing house, New York. Works: numerous pieces for String and Woodwind Ensemble, piano pieces, violin solos, Sonata for violin and piano; opera, Wizard of Avon; Symphony in F Major; Sym-phonietta in F; chamber Symphony in A, "Tribute to a Hero" (overture); Two String Quartets, C Minor and D Major with Fugue; Sonatina For
String Orch. Overtures for Band and Orch.: The May Queen; The Philos­opher; Robin Goodfellow; Souvenir de Rossini. Suites for orch.: The Streets of Bagdad; The Polar Suite; Scenes Pastorale; Night Voices; The Four Winds," for band orchestra; Three Humorous Sketches (The Flirtatious Rooster; The Balku Mule; The Buzzing Mosquitoes); Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra. Songs: "Mammy's Little Kinky Headed Boy"; "Bells of Killarney"; "Marceline (Dance of the Clowns)." Home: 327 Franklin Ave., Ridgewood, N.J.
Tripp, Paul, author; b. New York, N.Y., Feb. 20, 1911. ASCAP 1947. Educ.: Coll. of City of New York; Brooklyn Law School. Began career in the theater as singer, then later as actor and director. Taught dramatics to children in settlement houses and wrote three prize-winning anti-war one-act plays and many children's plays. In army 1942-45. First part of army career spent in Special Services, editing post newspaper and director of dramatics, then wrote training films for Signal Corps. Served in China for one year as staff sgt. in charge of signal center. Writer, lyricist and star of weekly C.B.S. television show. Works: "Tubby the Tuba" (named by Information Please Al­manac as best children's record of 1946); "Troubadour Serenade"; 'Tee Wee the Piccolo"; "Story of Celeste"; "Johnny Stranger"; "Tubby at the Circus. Home: 270 Riverside Dr., New York 17, N.Y.
Trix, Helen, composer, author, pi­anist, singer, actress; b. Newmans-town, Pa., Aug. 21, 1892; d. New York, N.Y., Nov. 18, 1951. ASCAP 1940. Educ.: Pa. public schools; Al­bright Coll., music and elocution. While in vaudeville became inter­ested in writing special material; toured U.S. vaudeville circuits alone; then with sister. Featured in London production, The League of Notionsy