Robert Hood Bowers was an American composer, conductor and musical director of operettas and stage musicals, and a conductor and musical director for radio. He composed the musical scores for some of the most popular silent movies, including Aloma of the South Seas and A Daughter of the Gods.
Portrait of Robert Hood Bowers
Cover of the sheet music of Chinese Lullaby, a song created by Bowers for the musical East is West in 1919
Aloma of the South Seas (1926 film)
Aloma of the South Seas is a lost 1926 American silent comedy drama film starring Gilda Gray as an erotic dancer, filmed in Puerto Rico and Bermuda, and based on a 1925 play of the same title by John B. Hymer and LeRoy Clemens.
1926 advertisement
Gilda Gray, 1922 publicity photo
Aloma of the South Seas lantern slide