Arnold Bax (1883–1953) was an English composer, poet, and author.

Best known for his orchestral

music, he also wrote songs, choral music, chamber pieces, and solo piano works. In addition to a
series of symphonic poems, he wrote seven symphonies, and was for a time widely regarded as the
leading British symphonist. Bax was born in Streatham to a prosperous family who encouraged his
music career, and his private income enabled him to follow his own path as a composer without
regard for fashion or orthodoxy. While still a student at the Royal Academy of Music, Bax became
fascinated with Ireland and the Celtic Revival. In the years before the First World War he lived in
Ireland and became a member of Dublin literary circles, writing fiction and verse under the
pseudonym Dermot O'Byrne. His best-known work is the symphonic poem Tintagel (1917). In 1942
Bax was appointed Master of the King's Music. (Full article...) Eva Lee Kuney, known as "Lee", was
born on April 24, 1934, in Hollywood, California, to parents Leon and Edna Kuney.[1][2] Her father
worked in the Hollywood film industry.[3] At the age of 18 months she appeared in her first film, Little
Papa, one of the Our Gang comedies.[1][3] She was one of about a dozen small children used to fill
out the background of Munchkin scenes in The Wizard of Oz (1939), as there were not enough
of Leo Singer's midgets to populate the set.[3][4][5]
In 1940, after a two-year drought with no film roles, her mother saw a casting notice for the role of
the six-year-old girl in Penny Serenade. Kuney was selected over 500 other applicants.[6] She
received her first screen credit playing Trina in the film.[1][3] In 1942 she appeared as herself in a
comedy play titled "Camera Angles", which featured many young Hollywood actors and actresses
playing themselves in a benefit performance for the Anne Lehr Milk Fund.[7]
Turning to dance, Kuney became a contract player for film studios; among her performances were
the films Holiday Inn (1942) and White Christmas (1954).[3]
Kuney graduated from North Hollywood High School.[8] At age 18 she accepted a dancing job in San
Francisco from choreographer Donn Arden, who then offered her a temporary gig in his new stage
show at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas.[3] She went on to dance in Las Vegas stage shows
starring Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Patti Page.[3]
After retiring from the stage, Kuney worked as a draftswoman for the Clark County Transportation
Department.[3] She later volunteered her time and advice to many community theater groups in Las
Vegas.[1][3]