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"The Lollypop Ball." Home: 47 Park-side Dr., Roslyn Heights, L.I., N.Y.
Wainer, Lee, composer; b. Philadelphia, Pa., March 29. ASCAP 1948. Educ: Univ. of Pennsylvania, B.A. and LLB.; Columbia Univ., M.A. Music with Albert Meller, piano and theory; Nathaniel Watson, organ. Writer of stories and screen plays for several motion pictures; also special material for radio, television, and entertainers. At present producing and writing for television. Winner of ASCAP fellowships awarded to writers of college shows, 1940 and 1941. Songs: "Wee Willie Winkle"; "We Had to Give Godfrey the Gate"; "Don't Know If I'm Comin Or Goin' "; "The Story of a Horn"; "The Morning After"; "Where's the Captain^ Hat"; "I'll Be Goin' "; "What Good's the Moon"; "Consider Yourself Kissed"; "Sing a Song of Spring"; "Little Sly Boots"; "New Love In Old Mexico"; "I'm a Vulture For, Horticulture." Home: New York, N.Y. ' Address: c/o ASCAP.
Wald, Max, composer, b. Litchfield, 111., July 14, 1889. ASCAP 1946. Educ.: American Cons, with Arthur Olaf Andersen, Chicago. In youth conducted orchestra in theatrical productions. Taught at American Cons. 1921; then to Paris studying composition with Vincent dTndy. Vocal coach and lecturer in Florence; to U.S. 1936 Chairman of Theory Dept. Chicago Musical Coll. Awarded $2500. N.B.C. orchestral award 1932. Now on faculty of Dalcroze School of Music, New York. Articles for magazines and encyclopedias. Works for orchestra: Sentimental Promenades; Retrospectives; The Dancer Dead; The Streets of Spring; In Praise of Pageantry. Chamber music: Two Piano Sonatas; Violin Sonata; Cycle for soprano, string quartet and piano; The Bright Season, piano suite for young people; lyric comedy, Miran- |
dolina; light opera, Gay Little World; music for Will Shakespeare; Sonata II for Violin and Piano; Madame Margot, opera in two acts; The Passion Flower (Ballet based on Les Caprices de Marianne); Creative Studies in Musical Composition, a theoretical course. Home: New Yoik, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Walker, Bertha (Bee), composer; b. Indianapolis, Incl., Aug. 18, 1908. ASCAP 1950. Songs: "Gotta Learn How to Love You"; "Same Old You", "I Had a Wonderful Time in Columbus"; "Who Told You That Lie"; "Hold Me, Hold Me, Hold Me", "Please Believe Me"; "The Angels Cry When Sweethearts Tell a Lie"; "There's a City on a Hill by the Sea", "Tonight Well Go Dancing"; "Guess I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night"; "You Can't Make Me Love You"; "The Night, the Stars, the Wind, the Sea." Home: New Yoik, N.Y. Address. <"c ASCAP.
Walker, Donald John, composer, author; b. Lambertville, N.J., Oct. 28, 1907. ASCAP 1947. Songs: "The Way of Dreams"; "The Magic Highway"; "The Land and My Music"; "Let's Go Too Far"; "Giowin Pains"; "Old Love"; "The Nightingale, the Moon, and I"; "Begone My Love" (from show Memphis Bound). Also, score for musical, Courtin Time. Home: Church Road, New Hope, Pa.
Walker, James J., author, lawyer; b. New York, N.Y., June 19, 1881; d. New York, N.Y., Nov. 18, 1946. ASCAP 1937. Formerly mayor of New York. Mastered piano in childhood; while preparing for the bar, became protege of Paul Dresser; pursued songwriting as avocation. Educ.: St. Francis Xavier Coll.; New York Univ. Law School, 1912. Elected to New York State Senate, became majority leader, then mayor, New York, 1925-32; arbiter United |
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