Robert Hood Bowers

b. 24 Might 1877, Chambersburg, Pa, USA, d. 29 Dec 1941, NY, USA. A composer for the musical theater in the first area of the 20th hundred years, Bowers researched at Franklin & Marshall University in Lancaster, Pa, and received an intensive musical education. In 1903 he collaborated with librettist and lyricist Raymond Peck within the rating for Rubes And Roses, which performed briefly in the La Salle Theater in Chicago. In the next year he produced his Broadway debut, dealing with Richard Carle within the Maid AS WELL AS THE Mummy, which highlighted veteran Annie Yeamans. After that, he contributed ratings, or occasional music, to several displays of variable quality, like the Vanderbilt Glass (1906), The Hoyden (1907), Mary’s Lamb (1908), The Sterling silver Superstar (1909), The Wife Tamers (1910, Chicago), A PARTICULAR Party (1911), The Crimson Rose (1911), The Springtime Maid (1911), The Rose Maid (1912), and A Depressed Romeo (1919). His best-known melody, ‘The Moon Shines OVER THE Moonshine’ (created with Francis De Witt), was presented by ex-Ziegfeld Follies superstar, Bert Williams, producing his last Broadway appearance in the revue Broadway Brevities Of 1920. After an lack of some years, Bowers’ very own Broadway swan-song was Oh, Ernest! (1927), a musical version of Oscar Wilde’s The NEED FOR Getting Earnest. Bowers also executed orchestras on radio and in saving studios, and within the last many years of his lifestyle offered as the musical movie director of THE INSTITUTION of Radio Technique.