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...famous war song was as virtuous as she was pretty. She was employed at a café early in World War I when Armentières was a resting place for troops . . . Entertainment was organized by a London music-hall actor, "Red" Rowland, and the Canadian songwriter Lieut. Gitz-Rice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 16, 1954 | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

...Died. Gitz Rice, 56, oldtime vaudevillian, composer of World War I song hits Dear Old Pal of Mine and Mademoiselle from Armentieres ("adapted" from an old French folk tune); of chronic bronchitis; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 27, 1947 | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...kind of thing. But they have no Beatrice Lillie and they have evidently fooled around at their rehearsals. They are not unlike high school celebrities giving a self-directed benefit, where the footlights falter and every one's pet smart cracks must be respected by all. Music by Gitz Rice, twitching by Irene Olson, genuinely ingenious gyrations by Nat Nazzaro Jr., have some merit. The chastely clad chorus is one of the prettiest units in town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Aug. 16, 1926 | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

...headliners, Hal Forde, the star of "Honeydew", and Lientenant Gitz Rice, composer of popular music, ren- dered several old and new songs. Billy McDermott, "a survivor of Coxey's Army", was a close competitor in popularity.' His original lines and songs were amusing and skillfully executed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAJESTIC BELOW PAR | 11/25/1921 | See Source »

Holbrook Blinn and Blanche Bates have roles that permit of negligible characterization, but their acting is finished and convincing for all that. Lieutenant Gitz Rice, Harrison Brockbank, and Percival Knight, are inserted like vaudeville specialties, but with their songs they ring up a hit apiece...

Author: By N. R. Ohaba g., | Title: The Theatre in Poston | 4/5/1918 | See Source »

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