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- Myra Davis Hemmings was a schoolteacher in the San Antonio public school system for over fifty years; she was also active in the African-American community, particularly in amateur theatrics. She and her husband John formed the Hemmings Players, a group of amateur actors who put on plays and other performances in and about San Antonio. Mrs. Hemmings, a 1913 graduate of Howard University in Washington, D.C., also earned a master's degree in speech from Northwestern in 1947. She is best known in some circles as one of the founders of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority; her personal papers are on deposit in the archives of the library of University of Texas - San Antonio.
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Prolific songwriter William Morgan Lewis, Junior ("How High the Moon", "The Old Soft Shoe") was educated at the University of Michigan and studied music with Hans Pick. Joining ASCAP in 1940, his Broadway stage scores include "One For the Money", "Two For the Show" and "Three to Make Ready", and he wrote songs for "Second Little Show", "Third Little Show" and "New Faces". He scored the Academy Award-winning 1955 documentary film "The Unconquered (Helen Keller, Her Life)". His chief musical collaborators include Nancy Hamilton, Ted Fetter, Edward Eliscu and E. Y. "Yip" Harburg, and his other popular-song compositions include "You Might As Well Pretend", "'Cause You Won't Play House", "Teeter Totter Tessie", "House With a Little Red Barn", "Barnaby Beach", "With All My Heart", "I Only Know", "Once Upon a Time", "At Last It's Love", and "Lazy Kind of Day".- Set Decorator
Lis Fribert was born on 18 September 1914 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Lis was a set decorator, known for Day of Wrath (1943). Lis died on 8 December 1968.- Freddie Tripp was an actor, known for Hot Ice (1952), The Black Glove (1954) and Stand by to Shoot (1953). He died on 8 December 1968 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.