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...donors are Morgan C. Preston '39, J. David Lannon '39, Alan N. Jenkins '39, Roger D. Lapham, Jr. '40, and Theodore Frothingham...
...Superintendent of the Senate Press Gallery in Washington from 1898 to 1931, Senate Librarian from 1931 to 1935, now assistant administrator of the archives of the U. S., 63-year-old James D. Preston is a familiar figure to Washingtonians. An accomplished woodworker, he has designed the sets for most recent Gridiron Club shows. A ringer for Neville Chamberlain, he impersonated the British Prime Minister in the last Gridiron show with no make-up except an umbrella. Last week Jim Preston's long and honorable career reached an appropriate climax. He accepted an invitation to go to Hollywood...
Brushing aside the plagiary charge, authors Morgan Preston '39, David Lannon '39, and Alan Lerner '40 stated that they had written the play last Spring, borrowing the title from a Pudding show produced during the Franco-Prussian War. I. A. L. Diamond, sophomore author of the Columbia book, admits lifting his title from Pegler...
...Dance Alone," and "Back Home," by Alan J. Lerner '41 and Sherwood Rollins, Jr. '40 will be played by Ruby Newman's Orchestra on the opening night, March 22. Lerner collaborated on the script, said to be one of the best in Pudding history, with Morgan O. Preston '39, and J. David Lannon '39. Edward C. Lilley is scheduled to direct the musical while William Holbrook is in charge of dancing...
...stuck to music, studied under Organist Charles Maskill and Pianist Rafael Joseffy, applied this talent to writing vaudeville songs, editing for a Philadelphia music publisher, and running his own player piano roll company. He used to pound rolls out by the yard, under some 20 different names-Preston Dupre for the classics, Cyril Crossing for tangos, other Frenchy names for "saluts d'amour," etc. In 1916 he came to Broadway and Tin Pan Alley, arranged and directed musicals for Jerome Kern, Rudolf Friml, Ziegfelu, Rodgers & Hart, Gershwin. He arranged the swipes that made the Revelers quartet a popular...