FISHER, Ethel

Ethel Fisher was a prolific songwriter. In the decade from 1915 to 1925, she assumed nine different male names, several of them French, as she published 55 songs for as many amateur poets. Nothing is known about her, other than that she worked with four different New York firms, chiefly with Frank Harding’s Music House in Manhattan. She adopted the following pseudonyms: Carl (also Karl) Muehling from 1915 to January 1919, M. Du Frerre from 1918–20, Frank Lorraine – 1919, Louis Lamont – 1919–20, Gustave Barto – 1920–22, Max Norworth – 1921–22, Ray Ross Frampton – 1922–23, Jean Navarre – 1922–23, and, most frequently, Herman Dubois (also DuBois and Du Bois) – 1923–25.