Biography Category
American film comedy team. The duo consisted of Stan Laurel, 1890–1965, b. Ulverson, England, whose real name was Arthur Stanley Jefferson; and Oliv...
(Charles Christopher Parker, Jr.), 1920–55, American musician and composer, b. Kansas City, Kans. He began playing alto saxophone in 1933, and after...
1891–1964, American composer and lyricist, b. Peru, Ind., grad. Yale, 1913. Porter’s witty, sophisticated lyrics and his affecting melodies place ...
(s n´ t) (KEY) , 1884–1960, American movie director and producer, b. Danville, Que. In 1909 he began working for D. W. Griffith at the Biograph Com...
(h p ´sh ) (KEY) , d.415, Alexandrian Neoplatonic philosopher and mathematician, a woman renowned for her learning, eloquence, and beauty. Little is ...
(py ´tr dä´bän ) (KEY) , 1250?–1316?, Italian physician and philosopher, a professor of medicine in Padua. His famous work Conciliator differen...