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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. His best-known composition is perhaps 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.