Fact #49609
When:
Short story:
Harry
B. Smith, a celebrated composer of songs, musicals and
operettas, dies of a heart attack in his room at the Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. Perhaps
his best-known composition is the jazz standard The
Sheik Of Araby. The most prolific of all American stage
writers, he is said to have written over 300 librettos and more
than 6000 lyrics.
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