Biography

Songwriter ("Poor Butterfly"), composer and conductor, one of the nine founders of the American Society of Composers and Publishers (ASCAP) in 1914 and its director from then into 1941, and he was also its treasurer between 1917 and 1928. He was educated in public schools and in music study in Chicago, thereafter leading his own dance orchestra, and he also worked as a staff composer for a Chicago publishing company. His Broadway stage scores include "The Runaways", "Fantana", "Mexicana", "A Knight For a Day", "The Midnight Sons", "The Jolly Bachelors", "The Never Homes", "The Ziegfeld Follies" (1911, 1912, 1913, 1914), "A Winsome Widow", "Hip Hip Hooray", "The Big Show", "Cheer Up", "The Kiss Burglar", "Happy Days", "Good Times", "Better Times", "Yours Truly", and "Three Cheers". His chief musical collaborators included Robert B. Smith, Glen MacDonough, Harry B. Smith, E. Ray Goetz, George V. Hobart, John Golden, and Anne Caldwell. His other popular-song compositions include "Look at the World and Smile", "Melodyland", "The Ladder of Roses", "Hello, I've Been Looking for You", "Jealous Moon", "Chu Chin Chow", "Melodyland", "Yours Truly", "What Am I Going to Do to Make You Love Me?", "Little Girl in Blue", "Just My Style", and "Life Is a See-Saw" plus others.
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