Catherine Chisholm Cushing(1874-1952)

Songwriter ("L' Amour, Toujours, L' Amour", "Dilly-Dally-O"), composer and author, educated at girls' schools. She wrote the Broadway stage librettos for "Glorianna" and "Lassie", and the librettos for "Marjolaine" and "Topsy and Eva". Joining ASCAP in 1935, her chief musical collaborators were Rudolf Friml and Hugo Felix. Her other popular-song compositions include "Chianti", "John and Priscilla", "When Brown Eyes Looked in Eyes of Blue" and "Read Between the Lines".