Word: tunesmithing
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Recently, the Evening Moscow found space to give its favorite tunesmith a somewhat ominous pat on the back. Under a sketch of Sedoi at the piano a verse said: "After songs should come operas. But though he hasn't created any Traviatas, let's sing, friends, and Sedoi, the young laureate, will join...
Married. Jascha Heifetz, 45, violin virtuoso turned popular tunesmith (When You Make Love to Me-Don't Make Believe), and Frances Spiegelberg, fortyish; both for the second time; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
Natalie Cantor Metzger, 29, one of Father Eddie Cantor's famous five, followed Sister Edna into divorce court. Natalie wanted her freedom from a Los Angeles antique dealer; Edna was through with Tunesmith Jimmy McHugh...
Died. Gus Edwards (real name: Gustave Edward Simon), 66, impresario extraordinary in the Keith circuit's hey-de-ho day, German immigrant boy who became "the star maker" (he discovered Cantor, Jessel, Hildegarde, Groucho Marx, a galaxy of others), and old-favorite tunesmith (By the Light of the Silvery Moon, School Days, In My Merry Oldsmobile) who never learned to write a note of music; of a heart attack after long illness; in Los Angeles...
James H. ("Jimmie") Davis, ballad-singer and tunesmith (You Are My Sunshine), who serenaded the people of Louisiana into electing him governor, went fly-casting (with a bug) in a bayou near Bunkie, hooked and landed...