Prolific screen composer, arranger, and conductor, educated at Juillardand the Academie fur Musik in Vienna. He played in night clubs inVienna and Munich from 1923 to 1926, then was an opera coach in Munich,1926-1927. In 1927 he conducted for NBC, and then became music directorfor WGY in Schenectady, New York. In 1933, he departed for Hollywoodand joined ASCAP in 1944.