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The only career Nelson Eddy ever considered was singing. His parents, Isabel (Kendrick) and William Darius Eddy, were singers, his grandparents were musicians. Unable to afford a teacher, he learned by imitating opera recordings. At age 14 he worked as a telephone operator in a Philadelphia iron foundry. He sold newspaper advertising and performed in amateur musicals. Dr. Edouard Lippe coached him and loaned him the money to study in Dresden and Paris. He gave his first concert recital in 1928 in Philadelphia. In 1933 he did 18 encores for an audience that included an assistant to MGM studio chief Louis B. Mayer, who signed him to a seven-year contract. After MGM acting lessons and initial trials, his first real success came as the Yankee scout to Jeanette MacDonald's French princess in Naughty Marietta (1935), a huge box-office success made on a small budget. Eddy and MacDonald were paired twice more (Rose-Marie (1936), Maytime (1937)) when metropolitan Opera star Grace Moore was unavailable; they became an institution. Their last work together was in 1942. Critics nearly always panned his acting. He did have a large radio following (his theme song: "Short'nin Bread"). In 1959 Eddy and MacDonald issued a recording of their movie hits which sold well. In 1953 he had a fairly successful nightclub routine with Gale Sherwood which ran until his death in 1967. He and his wife Anne Denitz had no children.- Kenneth Harlan was born on 26 July 1895 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for The Penalty (1920), Paradise Island (1930) and Danger Island (1931). He was married to Rosemarie Gonsalves Mirjanian, Rhea Walker, Helene Stanton, Helen (Donna) Spelner, Phyllis McClure, Doris Hilda Booth, Marie Prevost, Florence Hart and Salome F. Sanborn. He died on 6 March 1967 in Sacramento, California, USA.
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Oscar Shaw was born on 11 October 1887 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for The Great White Way (1924), The Cocoanuts (1929) and Upstage (1926). He was married to Louise Gale. He died on 6 March 1967 in Little Neck, New York, USA.- Composer
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His work as folk song collector began in 1905. In 1907 he was appointed lecturer at the Academy of Music where he taught music history and composing. His own works were first published in 1910. In 1919 he participated in the work of the musical directorium, for which later a disciplinary procedure was initiated against him, his appointment was declared null and void and he could no longer teach. His isolation came to an end with the international success of Psalmus Hungaricus in 1923 and his musical comedy entitled Hary János became a success the world over in 1926. His musical piece Szekelyfonó was presented in 1932. Further works of Kodaly include: Marosszeki tancok (1927-1930) (Marosszek Dances), Nyari este (1927) (Summer Evening), Galantai táncok (1933) (Galanta Dances), Budavari Te Deum (Buda Te Deum)- to the 250th anniversary of the liberation of Buda (1936), Folszallott a pava (1939) (The Peacock Is Flying) and Concerto (1940). His activity of music history was also of importance, his monograph entitled Hungarian Folk Music was published in 1937. During the Second World War he protected the persecuted but later had to go into hiding himself. He created Missa brevis in 1945. He was involved in the democratic rebirth and became the chairman of the board of directors of the Academy of Music. Between 1946 and 1949 he was the president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Of his work, Czinka Panna was first shown in 1948, Kallai kettos was presented in 1951. Between 1951 and 1967 the first volume of the Treasury of Hungarian Folk Music was published and his views and ideas were manifest in musical education, as well. His work earned him the Kossuth Prize in 1948 and in 1952. He made an important contribution to the study of folklore, music history, music aesthetics, music criticism, as well as to that of literary history, linguistics and the cultivation of the language. He spent his entire life fighting for the musical education of the youth, including the teaching of singing in schools, and the basic function of musical reading and writing as part of the curriculum and the cultivation of choir music based on Hungarian elements. The Kodaly method is today well-known and practised in musical education throughout the world.