Werner Janssen ex-'21 was recently awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Music inhonoris causa by the American University of Los Angeles, California.
Since leaving Dartmouth Janssen has written three musical scores, one for the musical comedy "Love Dreams," the second for the Charlotte Greenwood vehicle, "Letty Pepper," and the third and most successful for "Lady Butterfly," which ran at the Globe and Astor theatres in New York the greater part of the past season.
Janssen is now writing the music for a play to be produced soon. Oliver Morosco, New York theatrical producer, referring to him, says: "I have heard him in everything from popular to classical music, and consider him one of the finest we have."