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Current siography S of the frm of Irving Berlin, Inc., in which Club, New York.. Berlin brought in as vice president tbe man for the trust fund to be ased for the Girl and who had discovered him, Max Winslow. Bonn dn is se yoym nunwy Jo sinons nog In 1920 Berlin did the songs for the Zigfeld Frolic as well as the Follies.Together he and Sam H. Harris built the Music Box Theatre, carned" for the. fumd. thousands of' dollars. "With_ Legionnaires singing it" said Time with music by Berlin. After the second show "Boy Scouts pronting from it, Democrats and 1922for which he also wrote the songs, he Republicans using it as a theme song, God estimated that it had cost them $250,000 to Bless America showed no signs of weakening Yaise the curtain but that they had their' invest- after two.years of pretty bard usage." Berlin has given both the Army Ordnance "Wonderful theatre, the Music Box, isn't it? Department and the Treasury Department he remarked years later."We just love it." theme songs. To the first he gave Arms for In.1926, on January 4, Berlin was married Kuy e y fo e to Ellin Mackay,social registerite and daughter Bonds Today? In both instances all profits of the late Clarence H. Mackay, leading Catho- go to the departments mentioned. New works by him were also to be presented for the benefit of Russian War Relief at program ciety and was recorded in the "Dilatory entitled "Music at Work"in May 1942.and a Domicilessection of the Social Register. The Berlins sajled on their honeymoon without tlx planned for the beneft of the Army Relief blessing of the bride's father. Although new's- Fund. papers reported from time to time remarriage Berlin is small and slight, with dark hair in the Roman Catholic Church (to appease Mrs. and dark eyes behind horn-rimmed glasses. Berlin's father) and reconciliations,most of the He looks younger than his age. "He is well- reports were immediately denied by either the pressed,' Berlins or the Mackays. clothes,his naturally wavy black hair smoothed Berlin has at least sixteen musicals and half and oiled to the shining point, and his crisp a dozen flms to his credit he has written both manner are all characteristic' of men who words and music).Among the shows have know theatres both from in front of and been Face the Music 193iAs Thousands behind the proscenium arch." He has an Cheer 1932and Louisiana Purchase 1940 estate in the Catskills, and his favorite form which, after a successful Broadway runtoured of recreation is fshing. the country until April 1942.His Hollywood stints included: Top Hat and Follow the Flect References (1935-36):On the Avenuc (1937) Carefrce New. Repub 57:100-2 D 12 '28 and Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)Second N Y Herald Tribune XI p24 O 27 '40 Fiddle 1939andLouisiana Purchase1941). porV1p1My2640 His innumerable hit tunes have included such N Y Sun p22 My 27 40 perennials as Aluoys, Remember, Whatll1 Ed 1od Ot. 8 if 6d I sanl N Do,Bluc Skies, and many others. Mr1541 In the career of a song writer-publisher dis- PM p18 N 28 '40 pors putes, in or out of court, are inevitable. Berlin Tine 36:60 S '30 por; 36 :66-7 O 7 40; 37:51Je2341 Variety i39:1 JI17 40; 141:1+ D 25 monopolistic practices;he has been frequently bothered with plagiarism suits he has had to '40 sue cntertainers for using restricted material Victor Record R 3:5 J1 40 il por Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Mu- he was in the thick of the battle between the sicians 1940 networks and ASCAP,.an issue which was Howard, J. T. and Mendel, A. Our Con- finally settled amicably' inOctober 1941. In temporaryComposers p284-320 1941 an interview in 1916 Berlin revealed that "a Intemational Motion Picture Almanac couple of years before, someone had started a 1941-42 report among the publishers that I had paid Seldes, 'G. V. Seven Lively Arts p69-80 a Negro $10 for Alexande's Ragtime Band 1924 and then published it under my own name. Who's Who in America 1942-43 When they told me that,I asked them to tell me from whom I had bought my other successes Who's Who in the Theatre 1939 twenty-five or thirty of them. Among the many bonors accorded America's 1924 No. I song writer through the years have been Woollcott, A. Story of Irving Berlin the award for the best composition of 1940, 1925 tendered him by the National Committee for Music Appreciation for God Bless America. In that year he was also made member of the BEVIER, I8ABEL.(b>-vEr) Nov.14, Circus Saints and Sinners Club of America. 1860Mar. 17, 1942 Home economics educa- In March 1941 the Girl Scouts of America tor, lecturer, and writer; founded and served as head of Home Economics Department at University of Illinois College of Agriculture