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Songwriter ("Oh, You Beautiful Doll", "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm"), author, composer and actor, educated in public schools. He wrote songs for "The Ziegfeld Follies of 1909". He appeared in vaudeville between 1911-1914, then joined the staff of music publishers, where he worked into 1926. He wrote the Broadway stage scores for "The Newlyweds and Their Baby", "The Matinee Idol", and "Adrienne" (for which he also wrote the libretto). Joining ASCAP as a charter member in 1914, his other popular songs include "Can't You See I Love You?", "Great Big Blue-Eyed Baby", "If You Talk in Your Sleep, Don't Mention My Name", "Moving Day in Jungle Town", and "Chin Chin".- American novelist/poet Meredith Nicholson was born John Ramsay Allardyce Nicholson on June 28, 1894, in Crawfordsvlle, Indiana. After graduating from high school he took a variety of jobs, including court reporter, At 16 he had his first poems published in a few weekly journals, and not long afterwards became a published author when he received $5 for a short story he submitted to the "Chicgo Tribune" newspaper.
While working in Colorado as treasurer for a mining company, Nicholson wrote an historical study, "The Hoosiers" (1900). In 1905 he wrote what is probably his best-known novel, "The House of a Thousand Candles", which was later made into several films. He was a prolific author, but none of his novels was as successful as "The House of a Thousand Candles".