Gilbert, L. Wolfe

L. Wolfe Gilbert Lyricist and composer Louis Wolfe Gilbert, Odessa, Russia, August 31, 1886; Los Angeles, California, July 12, 1970. Gilbert came to the United States as a young boy, and initially worked as an actor and singer on the vaudeville circuit. By the early 1910s, he was writing lyrics as well as writing for The New York Clipper, a newspaper aimed at the theatrical community. In 1911, in the paper he attacked a song written by Lewis Muir, who shortly afterward confronted Gilbert; the…