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Director, producer, songwriter and author, educated at Edinburgh Academy in Scotland and Lausanne University in Switzerland. He studied drama with Herbert Beerbohm Tree. In World War I he served in the American Bureau of Information. On Broadway, he directed and wrote the scores for "Greenwich Village Follies" (5 editions), and "Jack and Jill", and directed "What's In a Name?" (also librettist and producer), "The League of Notions" (London), "Music Box Revue of 1924", "Dearest Enemy", "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" (1929, also producer, 1953), "Bow Bells" (London), "Fanfare" (London), "Ziegfeld Follies" (1934, 1936, 1943), "Life Begins at 8:40", "Thumbs Up!", "Jumbo", "One for the Money", "Two for the Show", "Laffing Room Only", "Three to Make Ready", "New Faces of 1952", and "Two's Company". He was the director at Radio City Music Hall in 1933, at the Great Lakes Exposition in Cleveland in 1937, at Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe from 1938-1950, and for Ringling Brothers Circus from 1942-1951. He joined ASCAP in 1950 and his chief musical collaborators included Mitchell Parish, Walter and Jean Kerr, and Joan Ford. His popular-music compositions include: "The Girl in the Moon"; "Eileen Avourneen"; "That Reminiscent Melody"; "The Valley of Dreams"; "The Last Waltz"; "Come to Vienna"; "Some Day When Dreams Come True"; "A Young Man's Fancy"; "At the Krazy Kat's Ball" and "Annabell Lee".- Director
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Henry Souvaine was a composer and radio producer. As a child prodigy, he took his first professional bow as violinist with a symphony orchestra in San Francisco. He later switched to the piano. In the early 1920s he lectured about music in public schools. As composer he collaborated with EY Harburg, Morrie Ryskind, J. P. McEvoy ("Comic Supplement" for Ziegfeld). His song "Would 'Ja For a Big Red Apple?" (written with Johnny Mercer and Everett Miller) was featured in the 1932 Broadway revue "Americana." He began his career in radio as producer of "Cadillac Concerts" and of the prestigious General Motors Symphony Broadcasts. From 1940 until his death he was in charge of Metropolitan Opera broadcasts and its intermission features, "Opera News On the Air" and "Opera Quiz." According to Variety, he sponsored the broadcasting debuts of Menuhin, Toscanini, Marian Anderson, Heifetz, Artur Rubinstein and others.- Alfredo De Sanctis was born on 7 October 1866 in Brindisi, Puglia, Italy. He was an actor, known for Troppo tardi t'ho conosciuta (1940), Processo e morte di Socrate (1939) and Il re d'Inghilterra non paga (1941). He was married to Alda Borelli. He died on 30 January 1954 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
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Harry Parkins was born on 8 April 1875 in Canada. He died on 30 January 1954 in Los Angeles, California, USA.