Ruby, Harry

Harry Ruby Composer Harry Rubinstein, New York City, January 27, 1895; Woodland Hills, California, February 23, 1974. Ruby’s musical life began when he got a job as a staff pianist for Gus Edwards in his publishing house. While in vaudeville as the pianist of the Messenger Boys Trio, he met dancer Bert Kalmar , who also had a publishing company with Harry Puck (1890–1964). Ruby persuaded Kalmar to give him a job as staff pianist with his firm. (Puck worked with his sister Eva, and Kalmar and…