Who's who on the screen (1920)

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Who's Who on the Screen VICTOR L. SCHERTZINGER Victor L. Schertzinger was born in Mahanory City, Pa. He was educated at the Brown Preparatory School and the University of Pennsylvania and studied Music in Brussels, having inherited his musical talents from his mother, Pauline Weber, the violinist. He made his first bow to the public at the age of nine, when he was presented at the Academy of Music as a youthful prodigy with the violin, and it was as the master of that instrument that he toured the country, in after years, with many great artists. He is the author of three successful comic operas, and was the first musician to write scores for the screen, and it was through this association with that medium that he became a director. He has been Mabel Normand's director for her recent Goldwyn productions and his work has been hailed as unusually effective, 355