Robert Hood Bowers

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.

Born and raised in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Robert Hood Bowers was the eldest son of Ellen Graham Heyser and Oliver C. Bowers (a district attorney of Franklin County, and nominee for the Democratic Party for Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district for the 1904 elections).

At the same time, he continued his musical studies first with Constantin von Sternberg and later with Frederick Grant Gleason at the Conservatory of Chicago,[1] where he won the gold medal in 1902.

[6] He was employed at the School of Radio Technique at the Rockefeller Center, as the head of the musical department for five years before his death.

The score was explicitly mentioned in the advertisements for the movie[8] and was described in 1921 as the most memorable up to that time,[9] and as "a high point of motion picture music".