John Murray Anderson

20 Sept 1886 – 30 Jan 1954

Director, producer, songwriter and author, educated at Edinburgh Academy in Scotland and Lausanne University in Switzerland. He studied drama with Herbert Beerbohm Tree. In World War I he served in the American Bureau of Information. On Broadway, he directed and wrote the scores for "Greenwich Village Follies" (5 editions), and "Jack and Jill", and directed "What's In a Name?" (also librettist and producer), "The League of Notions" (London), "Music Box Revue of 1924", "Dearest Enemy", "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" (1929, also producer, 1953), "Bow Bells" (London), "Fanfare" (London), "Ziegf