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(ALBUM.) Autograph album containing over 50 items Signed by notables, mostly figures relating to radio or television broadcasting in New York during the 1940s, mostly autograph inscriptions Signed, most wishing American music critic Deems Taylor (1885-1966) a Happy Birthday, most written alone on a page on recto or verso, many share page with mounted newspaper clippings or photographs. Folio, morocco, detached and markedly rubbed covers, perished backstrip; many leaves stained from adhesive. [New York], circa 1944
Leopole Stokowski. AMQS and Inscribed, "To Deems--his / achievement--and his / still greater achievement / of the future / Stoki," 8 notes notated on a hand-drawn stave • Clifton Webb. "Happy Birthday to Baby Deems / From his aged friend, admirer" • Mary Martin. "Dear Deems / Here's a 'little touch of Venus' / to wish you happiness always" • Lillian Gish. TLS, to "Miss Taberna," declining an invitation. 1 page, square 8vo; mounted to page. Beverly Hills, 27 February 1945 • Richard Rodgers. AMQS, "Dick Rodgers," three bars from the traditional "Happy Birthday" song notated on a hand-written stave, with 4 lines of holograph lyrics wishing Deems a happy birthday. 1 page, oblong 8vo; mounted to page • James Montgomery Flagg. Graphite drawing Signed, bust portrait of "Carol" who inscribed drawing to Taylor. 11 1/2x8 1/2 inches; mounted to page • Lloyd Lozes Goff. Watercolor on paper, a landscape, Signed at lower left and Inscribed at lower right: "To Deems Taylor." 8 3/4x12 1/2 inches; mounted to page. Np, 22 December 1944 • Cornelia Otis Skinner. "Happy birthday to Deems Dream-man Taylor and may / we again get plastered together in Chicago--which is / as compromising a statement as you choose to make / it--anywhere--anytime!" • Grace Moore. "To Deems Taylor--In remembrance of / that 'Chesterfield Milestone' up the ladder & to your always unfailing comradeship" • Lawrence Tibbett. "God bless you Deems! I'm proud and happy / to have created two beautiful parts you wrote" • Walter Damrosch. "To dear Deems / 'His years are young but his / experience old / His head unmellowed but his / judgment ripe'" • Hildegarde Loretta Sell (2). Each Signed, "Hildegarde": Photograph mounted to page, additionally inscribed. 10x8 inches; inscription written on page • Gloria Vanderbilt. "To Deems--Happy Birthday! / I agree with / Carol! / Gloria DeCicco" • Elsa Maxwell • Jack Kriendler [co-proprietor of 21 Club] • George S. Kaufman • Rouben Mamoulian • José Iturbi • Margaret Sullavan • Fredric March • Ronald Colman. Inscription on personal stationery. 1/2 page, 4to; tipped to page • Nicholas Kostrukoff. In Cyrillic script • Judith Anderson • Helen Menken • Miriam Battista • Russell Maloney • others.
