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Murphy, Pat
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of Pittsburgh, Bachelor of Laws. Largely self taught in music, became composer for numerous Broadway productions. A pioneer in industrial motion pictures, became executive and author and producer of many produc­tions in this field. Wrote scores for Broadway productions Greenwich Village Follies, 1925-26; The Gang's All Here; Hold Your Horses; How's the King; Rain or Shine; Rainbow Rose; Top Hole; Mimic World; Red Pepper; Spice of 1922; Vanities, 1924; Ritz Revue. Songs: "Speak Easy"; "That's My Baby"; "Sunshine Brought the Rose"; "Wouldn't You"; "Speaking of You"; "It Always Takes Two"; "By Special Permission of the Copyright Owners I Love You"; "I'd Like To Take You Home To Meet My Mother"; "Feelin' Good"; "The Wanderer"; "Is It Any Wonder?"; "Dreamy Hollow"; "This Is Your War"; "It's Only the Beginning"; "On the Radio"; "Oh! Baby. Home: Ho-hokus, N.J.
Murphy, Pat, composer, author; b. Ridgway, Pa., Feb. 21, 1901. ASCAP 1950. Educ: Ridgway Borough; Kentucky Military Inst.; Mercers-burg Acad.; Carnegie Inst, of Tech­nology. Vice president lumber and millwork business. Songs: "Tell the Truth"; "Springtime and You"; "My Bugle Reverie"; "Somethin's Got Me Jumpin'." Home: P.O. Box 225, Ridgway, Pa.
Murphy, Stanley, author; b. Dublin, Ireland, Nov. 29, 1875; d. Jan. 10, 1919. ASCAP 1914 (charter mem­ber). To U.S. 1883; citizen. Educ.: private and public schools. Served in Spanish American War. Works: "Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet"; "Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee"; "On the 5:15"; "When We Meet in the Sweet Bye and Bye"; "Oh How She Could YackL Hacki Woo"; "I'm Going to Get Myself a Black Salome." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Murray, John, author; b. New York, N.Y., Oct. 12, 1906. ASCAP 1929. Educ.: DeWitt Clinton High School, N.Y.; Coll. of City of N.Y; Columbia Univ.; Brooklyn Law School. World War II, 2nd Lieut. Inf., 1942-45, dis­charged as Capt. Writer and producer of training films. Songs: "Do the New Yorker"; "I'm Wrapped Up in You" for Ziegfeld Follies 1931; AIf I Love Again" for revue Americana; "I'm Good for Nothing But You", "Once in a Lifetime"; "Gangway"; "Tonight and Forever" for Monte Carlo Follies 1934; "Flapperette"; "When You're Counting the Stars Alone"; "Happy-go-Lucky You and Broken-Hearted Me"; "Have a Little Dream On Me." Home: 350 E. 77 St., New York, N.Y.
Murray, Lyn, composer, conductor, arranger; b. London, Eng., Dec. 6, 1909. ASCAP 1943. U.S. citizen 1929. Educ.: in music with Joseph Schil-linger, Victor Bay. Teacher Choral technique, Juilliard School of Music. Past president, American Society of Music Arrangers; member, Com­posers Authors Guild, S.P.A., Screen Composers Assoc., The Bohemians. Composed and conducted scores for radio shows on all networks, incl. Document A/777 for the United Na­tions. Arranger choral music for Panama Hattie; Let's Face It; This is the Army; Hollywood Pinafore; Fini-an's Rainbow. Works: Camptown, ballet; Leapfrog, overture; Cromer and Variations on a Children's Tune for strings; Esther, opera; Liberation, cantata based on F. D. Roosevelt's Normandy D-Day Prayer. Scored mo­tion pictures: The Prowler; The Re­turn of Gilbert b- Sullivan; Cinderella. Also various songs. Home: 3257 Blair Dr., Los Angeles 28, Calif.
Muse, Clarence, composer, singer, actor, director of stage and screen; b. Baltimore, Md., Oct. 7, 1889. ASCAP 1940. Educ: Baltimore public schools; Dickerson Univ., Carlisle,